Jill Biden is using the story of a teenage friend's abortion to illustrate what she says is at stake in November's elections.
First lady Jill Biden, middle right, gestures while speaking with Dr. Alan Ashworth, clockwise from left, Dr. Paola Betancur, Dr. Monica Bertagnolli, Kami Pullakhandam, hidden, Dr. Rita Mukhtar, Dr. Laura Huppert and Rep. Jackie Speier, D-Calif., during a visit to the University of California San Francisco Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center in San Francisco, Friday, Oct. 7, 2022.
Women no longer have a constitutional right to abortion after a conservative majority on the Supreme Court in June overturned its ruling in Roe, allowing individual states to decide whether abortion should be legal. Biden said she was 17 when one of her friends got pregnant in the late 1960s. They lived in Pennsylvania and abortion was illegal.
“I went to see her in the hospital and then cried the whole drive home,” she told several hundred people at the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee’s Women’s Lunch and Issues Conference at San Francisco's Fairmont Hotel.
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