President Joe Biden Friday slammed the US Supreme Court for ending the right to abortion, accusing it of putting women’s lives at risk in the name of an “extreme ideology.” 

“The court has done what it has never done before, expressly take away a constitutional right that is so fundamental to so many Americans,” Biden said.

“It’s a realization of an extreme ideology and a tragic error by the Supreme Court in my view.”

But his White House ruled out expanding the number of justices on the bench, a move some progressives in the Democratic Party has called for in the wake of Friday’s decision that overturned Roe v. Wade, the landmark case that made abortion legal in the country.

‘That is something that the president does not agree with. That is not something that he wants to do,’ White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in a briefing with reporters on Air Force One in route to the G7.

She also said it was up to Congress to ensure abortion rights. Some advocates have called on Biden to use his executive power as president but Jean-Pierre said that power has it limits.

‘What I’m trying to say about the executive actions is that nothing could make it fill the hole that this decision has made with Roe,’ she said. ‘The only way to make that whole again is for Congress to act is Congress – to restore Roe and make a law of the land. That is actually the best way to do that.’

Biden slammed the “extreme ideology” of the conservative-leaning Supreme Court, which was heavily shaped by his Republican predecessor, Donald Trump, but said there were few things he could do by executive order to protect women’s reproductive rights. He called on Congress to pass a law to restore abortion rights, and on voters to elect lawmakers and state leaders who would protect these rights.

Overturning the 1973 landmark Roe vs. Wade decision that protected abortion rights means “the health and life of women in this nation are now at risk,” said Biden, a lifelong Catholic. The original ruling “reaffirmed basic principles of equality, that women have the power to control their own destiny.”

Biden and other Democrats hope to use outrage over the court decision to rally voters in November’s midterm elections. Democrats are at risk of losing control of both the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate.

The apex court on Friday ended the right to abortion in a ruling that shreds half a century of constitutional protections on one of the most divisive and bitterly fought issues in American political life.

The conservative-dominated court overturned the landmark 1973 “Roe v Wade” decision that enshrined a woman’s right to an abortion, saying that individual states can now permit or restrict the procedure themselves.

“The Constitution does not confer a right to abortion; Roe and Casey are overruled; and the authority to regulate abortion is returned to the people and their elected representatives,” the court said.

Obama reacts to US Supreme Court Abortion ruling

Former President Barack Obama called the Supreme Court’s ruling on the right to abortion “was wrong” and “devastating” that “attack the essential freedoms of millions of Americans”. Taking to Twitter, Obama said, “Today, the Supreme Court not only reversed nearly 50 years of precedent, it relegated the most intensely personal decision someone can make to the whims of politicians and ideologues attacking the essential freedoms of millions of Americans.” 

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