The White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre is rapidly building a reputation for herself as the high priestess of unawareness and ill-preparedness.
“I would have to get back to you on that” is her typical reply to even the most elementary of questions.
She also isn't exactly an adept wordsmith. If she continues down this path, perhaps someday she may surpass Kamala Harris.
Just yesterday, Joe Biden signed
an executive order that ensures access to abortion for women following the
Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade (1973).
Biden said the order helps women travel out of state to
receive abortions, ensures health care providers comply with federal law so
women aren't delayed in getting care, and advances research and data collection
"to evaluate the impact that this reproductive health crisis is having on
maternal health and other health conditions and outcomes."
Jean-Pierre was asked about the timing
of the order i.e. why the order wasn’t signed sooner.
The question was valid.
Politico leaked a draft
opinion by Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito that provides the
rationale on why Roe v. Wade must be overturned on May 02,
2022. Roe v. Wade was overturned on June 24, 2022.
This is an issue that is dear to the Democrats with their far-left base being fanatical proponents of abortion. One would have assumed that
the White House should have been prepared with the executive order the moment
Roe Vs. Wade was overturned at least to appease their base.
Perhaps the Democrats wanted to create panic among their unenthusiastic base to ensure that vote for them during the mid-terms. They know their base is not exactly excited about Biden or the Democrats which could lead them to skip voting in November.
Another plausible explanation is that incompetence, ineffectiveness and ineptitude are norms, not aberrations in Biden’s White House. Matters have deteriorated to such an extent that they cannot even attend to the needs of their base.
No wonder even Democrats are reluctant to support the idea of
Biden running for reelection in 2024.
Back to Jean-Pierre.
Sher prattled on in her response. She claimed that Biden was consulting with legal experts. She also said that in government, there are "steps and processes that we have to take in order to take actions as big as — as big as these."
She then proceeded to make a claim that raised a lot of eyebrows.
"From day one, when the Supreme Court made this extreme
decision to take away a constitutional right, it was an unconstitutional action
by them — a right that was around for almost 50 years, a right that women had
to make a decision on their bodies and how they want to start their families.
And so the President has been very clear that he’s going to do everything that
he can. It doesn’t stop with this. But we also understand that you
know, it’s — he can’t only be the only person working on this, right?
That’s why we continue to ask Congress to take action.”
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Jean-Pierre was merely reiterating her boss Joe Biden’s
assertion when he signed the executive order to protect abortion access in the
wake of Roe v. Wade’s reversal.
"Let’s be clear about something from the very start, this
was not a decision driven by the Constitution," he said, adding that the
court’s conservative majority was "playing fast and loose with the
facts."
So let's revisit the facts.
Justice Harry A. Blackmun, who
authored the long Roe opinion, included the medical history of abortion,
citing the views of Persians, Greeks, and Romans. He also quoted two versions of
the Hippocratic oath and early English authors dating to the 13th century.
What Blackmun did not quote is any provision in the Constitution that
protected abortion rights.
Legal experts and the most ardent proponents of abortion rights have asserted the reasoning in Roe was weak.
Even Ruth
Bader Ginsburg, years before she became a Supreme Court Justice, acknowledged
that the court made a mistake by going too far, too fast in its first ruling on
the constitutionality of abortion. She gave several speeches criticizing the
court’s handling of the abortion issue.
The Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe Vs Wade does not eliminate abortion access in the U.S., it instead reverts the issue back to the states.
It is also important to reiterate that there is emphatically no mention of abortion in the constitution. Abortion rights are not even implicitly protected by any constitutional provision.
Now that the Supreme Court has overturned Roe Vs Wade, the issue
of abortion now returns to the legislature.
The Democrats can pass a law that legalizes abortion. They
could make it their primary campaign issue.
But it won’t be easy.
The far left base of the contemporary Democrat party, are fervent proponents of abortion to the extent that they support the killing of babies until birth for which they demand funding from
taxpayers.
Most fair-minded people do not approve of this.
Even proponents of abortion believe that it should be safe,
rare, and legal. Once upon a time, the Democrats believed in this
principle, even Hillary Clinton said
this during a presidential debate in 2008. Those days are over.
Back to Jean-Pierre.
Her job is to provide information that is rooted in facts. She
isn’t a social or political commentator. Providing opinions is beyond the realms
of her job description.
Every syllable she utters is part of the nation's history. It is therefore incumbent upon her to always be factual. If she doesn't have the right information she can always resort to her trademark ““I would have to get back to you on that”.
But instead, she chose
to state an opinion and make a claim that was inaccurate.
A fair media would have held her accountable and would have fact-checked her remarks. But alas the mainstream media function as the propaganda wing for the Democrats.
Ideally, the White House should have censured Jean-Pierre. She should have been compelled to issue an
immediate retraction and an apology.
But nothing of the kind occurred or is likely to occur.
With every passing day, the Democrats are violating the many
sacrosanct fundamentals.
Hopefully, Jean-Pierre will be held accountable during the next
White House Press briefing. Perhaps Steve Doocy who is one of the rare members of the press who challenges the White House will once again rise to the occasion.
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