<p>White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki avoided answering a direct question about the leaked early opinion draft that indicated the Supreme Court might be poised to overturn the landmark abortion case <em>Roe v. Wade</em>.</p>
<p>Even when asked specifically — twice — whether President Joe Biden would accept a decision <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/is-that-legit-biden-claims-lgbtq-students-could-be-banned-from-schools-if-court-flips-roe/">overturning <em>Roe</em></a> as &#8220;legitimate,&#8221; Psaki redirected the conversation and did not provide an answer.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">WATCH: Jen Psaki refuses to explicitly answer say whether the Biden administration would accept a SCOTUS ruling striking down Roe v. Wade as &quot;legitimate.&quot;</p>
<p>She also laments how abortions of Asians, Blacks, and Hispanics babies would plummet. <a href="https://t.co/KBGEPyT7kx">pic.twitter.com/KBGEPyT7kx</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) <a href="https://twitter.com/CurtisHouck/status/1521941926718717952?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 4, 2022</a></p></blockquote>
<p>&#8220;If the Supreme Court does move to strike down <em>Roe</em>, should Americans be prepared to just accept that decision as legitimate and would President Biden accept that decision as legitimate?&#8221; one reporter asked.</p>
<p>&#8220;Well, I can&#8217;t speak for what actions could be possible on the legal front, I would point you to the Department of Justice on that,&#8221; Psaki began. &#8220;What I can tell you will happen is — and this is what we are preparing for the possibility of — that if <em>Roe</em> were to fall, abortion would probably be illegal in about half the states in the country, up to 26 states.&#8221;</p>
<p>Psaki went on to lament the number of states that had already <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/oklahoma-governor-signs-texas-style-abortion-ban-into-law/">passed abortion restrictions</a> — and the thirteen states that had implemented &#8220;trigger laws&#8221; which would impose restrictions if the Court ruled to overturn <em>Roe</em>.</p>
<p>&#8220;As a result of all of this, tens of million of women may lack access to reproductive health care services as soon as this summer if that were a decision to be made,&#8221; Psaki continued. &#8220;What we&#8217;re really focused on is the impact this would have — it would dramatically reduce access to reproductive care particularly for women with low incomes, women of color, women in rural communities.&#8221;</p>
<p>Psaki complained that women in the affected states might not be able to afford the necessary <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/subsidizing-the-abortion-industry-amazon-to-fund-abortion-tourism-for-its-employees/">travel costs</a> if they wanted to get an abortion but their state was among those that had imposed tighter restrictions or banned the procedure altogether.</p>
<p>&#8220;It sounds like you&#8217;re saying then that&#8217;s a yes, he would consider this a legitimate decision,&#8221; the reporter pressed again.</p>
<p>&#8220;Well, there is not even a decision yet,&#8221; Psaki pushed back. &#8220;We don&#8217;t know the validity of the — we know that this is a leaked document, it is not the final opinion, so I just can&#8217;t speak to that hypothetically.&#8221;</p>

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