President Biden ruled Friday against the controversial Texas abortion law, at one point he disagreed with the proposal that human life begin in its conception.
Still, Biden took a different note while he was vice president and told an interviewer in 2015, “I’m willing to accept that the moment of conception is a life and a human being.”
The previous interview, which Biden gave to Fr. Matt Daily, editor-in-chief of America magazine, was first reported by The Daily Caller.
The Supreme Court declined earlier this week to block Texas law, which bans women from abortion after a fetal beat is detected and allows private citizens to sue anyone who “helps or incites performing or inciting an abortion “. Fetal heartbeats are usually detected six weeks after conception, before most women know they are pregnant.
On Friday, Biden argued that the new law “creates a surveillance system where people get rewards” for prosecuting cases against doctors or abortion clinics.
“I respect the people who think that, who don’t support Roe against Wade; I respect their opinions,” the president added. “I respect them, those who believe that life begins at the moment of conception and everything. I respect that. I disagree, but I respect that. I will not impose it on people. “
While the last part of Biden’s statement followed what he told Malone in 2015, the then vice president also said he was “prepared” to accept the Catholic Church’s doctrine on abortion as “of fide ”or as an essential part of faith.
“I am prepared to accept for the sake of faith, my wife and I, my family, the issue of abortion,” he said. “What I am not willing to do is impose a rigid vision: precise vision, pejorative rigid sounds, a precise vision born of my faith, on other people who fear God, equally committed to life, equally committed. with the sanctity of life.
“And I am willing to accept that the moment of conception is a life and a human being,” Biden continued. “But I’m not prepared to tell other people who fear God and don’t fear God and have a different view.”
Biden seemed less confident about the subject in a 2007 interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
“I am ready to accept the vision of my church. I think it’s hard. I have to accept it in faith, “then-Delaware Sen. Tim Russert told moderator.” This is a tough, tough decision for me. viability, that is, the ability to survive outside the womb, which I have no doubt about. “
Shortly after announcing his candidacy for the presidency in 2019, Biden reversed his long-standing support for the Hyde amendment, which bans the use of federal funds as payment for abortions.
“I cannot justify leaving millions of women without access to the care they need and the ability to exercise their constitutionally protected right,” she said at the time.
On Thursday, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki attacked a male reporter on the Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN) who asked, “Why does the president support abortion when his own Catholic faith teaches that abortion is morally wrong? “
After Psaki initially responded that Biden believes “it’s a woman’s right, it’s a woman’s body and it’s her choice,” asked journalist Owen Jensen, “Who do you think should consider the child? not born? “
“He thinks it’s up to a woman to make those decisions and a woman to make those decisions with her doctor,” Psaki replied. “I know you’ve never faced those decisions and you’ve never been pregnant, but for women who have had these decisions it’s incredibly difficult. The president believes that right must be respected.”
The White House did not respond to a request for comment from The Post on Friday evening.