President Biden criticized Republicans for not understanding how advancing women's health not only improves women's lives but also leads to prosperity for the entire nation. He made the remarks during a first-of-its-kind conference on women's health research at the White House on Wednesday afternoon.
“The truth is that the health of our mothers, grandmothers, sisters, daughters, friends, and colleagues affects not only the well-being of women but the well-being of the entire nation,” Biden said at the conference. “That's a fact – we haven't taken that to the other team yet. I mean it – across the board.”
Meanwhile, Republicans have questioned whether Democrats understand the need to protect women, citing, in particular, Biden administration policies that sought to allow transgender women to use biological female spaces and play on women's sports teams.
President Biden speaks during the first White House Conference on Women's Health Research on December 11, 2024. (Getty Images)
“Does any Democrat want to stand up and stand up for girls and protect girls in their own lives, in their own spaces, and protect girls in sports — not to force girls to participate in sports against men?” asked Tiffany Justice, co-founder of the conservative nonprofit Mothers for Freedom. “The idea that Democrats protect or respect women is absolutely nonsense.”
The justice noted Biden's appointment of Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, “who was unwilling to define what a woman is” when pressed on the issue during her confirmation hearings.
The Heritage Foundation's Sarah Perry, a civil rights attorney with extensive experience litigating Title IX cases, noted that Biden's remarks had an underlying tone that “abortion is health care,” which was a hot-button issue for Republicans during this year's election.
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“This administration has made a name for itself promoting the most extreme ideological policies,” Perry said. “I mean he has a guy in a robe at the Department of Health and Human Services telling us what health care is. That's the deceptive nature of those kinds of representations.”
Republicans questioned whether Democrats understand the need to protect women, citing policies that allow transgender women to use biological women's spaces and play on women's sports teams. (Fox News Digital)
Colin Reed, a strategist in the Republican Party, added that the electoral success that Republicans witnessed last month was an indication that the American people reject this type of argument from Democrats.
“The Democratic Party has become a one-trick pony trying to speak to voters facing systemic challenges,” he said. “Until Democrats start meeting voters where they are, they will continue to lose elections.”
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In a statement to Fox News Digital, Carolyn Levitt, a spokeswoman for Trump and Vance, noted that Trump's campaign was aimed at “making all Americans” healthy again, including women, adding that Trump “will deliver on that promise.”
Fox News Digital reached out to the White House for comment but did not receive a response.
