My mom taught me that saying something you know is not true is a lie. President Joe Biden told some whoppers Thursday night in his State of the Union speech, including several about abortion.
Biden, for example, vowed to “restore Roe v. Wade as the law of the land.” No president, of course, can establish the “law of the land,” let alone reinstate an overturned Supreme Court decision interpreting the Constitution.
Biden was really saying that he would sign into law the so-called Women’s Health Protection Act, which is supported by nearly every Democrat in Congress.
In Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court held in 1973 that our written Constitution protects an unwritten right to privacy that, in turn, includes an unwritten right to abortion. The high court created an elaborate set of rules for each trimester of pregnancy to determine which pro-life legislation crossed…
