Jim Jordan Calls it ‘Interesting’ That Joe Biden Once Voted to Let States Overturn Roe vs. Wade When He Was in the Senate

Joe Biden said today that he would support an exception to the Senate filibuster to protect access to abortion.

That stance is a complete turnaround from the early days of his political career when Biden had disapproved of the Roe vs. Wade ruling by the US Supreme Court and said women did not have “the sole right to say what should happen” to their bodies.

Biden, who had become a senator in 1973, had made the remarks a year later when he told the Washingtonian magazine, “I don’t like the Supreme Court decision on abortion. I think it went too far.”

“I don’t think that a woman has the sole right to say what should happen to her body,” Biden had claimed at the time.

Biden was the youngest senator in his early 30s back then and he added that he was “really quite conservative on most other issues.”

Per The New York Times archives from 1982, Biden had also been singled out as one of the only two Democrat lawmakers supporting a constitutional amendment that would allow states to overturn Roe vs. Wade and pass their own laws over abortion.

The National Abortion Rights Action league had dubbed the amendment “the most devastating attack yet on abortion rights.”

U.S. House Rep Jim Jordan (R-OH) seized on that complete turnaround by Biden and called it “interesting” in a tweet today.

“Joe Biden voted to let states overturn Roe v. Wade when he was in the Senate. Interesting!”

Joe Biden voted to let states overturn Roe v. Wade when he was in the Senate.

Interesting!

— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) June 30, 2022

Biden reportedly had pointed to his Roman Catholic upbringing and roots and said he was “probably a victim, or a product, however you want to phrase it, of my background.”