Catholic News Agency asserted in a report that President Joe Biden might have put off a lot of Catholic voters when he tweeted about his plan to sign a law that will codify Roe if his party wins enough congressional seats in November.

“The final say about your right to choose rests with you,” Biden tweeted Wednesday. “If you do your part and vote, Democratic leaders in Congress will do their part. I’ll do my part. With your support, I will sign a law codifying Roe in January.” 

Biden further addressed the matter in a Democratic National Committee speech at the Howard Theatre later Wednesday. 

That speech was described as all about abortion, a tactic called upon as Democratic candidates are facing “uphill battles” in the polls, Catholic News Agency (CNA) reported. 

Biden further said the 2022 midterms are “the most consequential election in history” in relation to Roe, CNA continued. Democrats currently hold the House and the Senate by very slim margins.

All 435 House seats are up for election, along with 35 seats in the Senate, this November, CNA said, adding that 36 governorships are also on the ballot. 

Biden has called Republicans “extremists,” warning of a national abortion ban if Republicans take Congress. With Biden’s approval rating and popularity at an all time low, CNA suggests Biden is pushing voters toward the issue of abortion in the last weeks before the election. 

Biden said by targeting abortion, laws are also compromising healthcare for women.

“Today in America, there are women who have been turned away from emergency rooms while having miscarriages, losing wanted pregnancies, and told they need to wait until they are sicker before they get the care they need. Doctors and nurses fear they can face criminal charges,” the president said, according to CNA. 

Live-Action, a pro-life advocacy group, scoffed at that, saying pro-choice advocates are attempting to “scare women” into believing the lie that they will not receive care from a miscarriage or ectopic pregnancy. Live-Action’s website shows that abortion laws within all 50 states, specifically since Roe was overturned, have all explicitly stated that treatment for miscarriages and ectopic pregnancies are still legal. 

Other Catholic advocates are criticizing Biden for giving in to his party instead of sticking to his religious values.

“Catholics are appalled by the unprecedented abortion extremism pursued by the nation’s second Catholic president,” CatholicVote President Brian Burch said in a release. “While Americans struggle with record inflation, the president of the United States has nothing to offer but a pledge to expand the right to violently destroy innocent unborn children – up until birth and for any reason.” 

He called on American bishops to address these issues. “We need Church leaders to step up and make clear that no Catholic can support candidates or policies that would make America one of the most extreme abortion nations in the world,” he continued. 

The Catechism describes the Church’s stance on abortion: “Since the first century the Church has affirmed the moral evil of every procured abortion. This teaching has not changed and remains unchangeable. Direct abortion, that is to say, abortion willed as an ends or a means, is gravely contrary to the moral law” (No. 2271). 

In Arizona, meanwhile, the Arizona Life Coalition praised a recent ruling by Judge Kellie Johnson that removed the 1973 injunction that was “blocking the state’s abortion ban from enforcement,” according to a press release last month. 

Arizona Life Coalition said the group stands ready to help struggling mothers and their children, to offer alternatives to abortion through Church ministries that provide maternal care, and the 2,700 non-profit pregnancy centers in Arizona. Arizona Life Coalition believes “all innocent human life is sacred and must be protected” in the press release.