Joe Biden’s Policies on Abortion and Immigration: The Challenges of a Catholic President

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Jo Renee Formicola

Joe Biden’s Policies on Abortion and Immigration

The Challenges of a Catholic President

Jo Renee Formicola

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Lexington Books
30 October 2023

Religion & politics; Politics & government; Political ideologies; Religious & theocratic ideologies

The first part of Joe Biden’s Policies on Abortion and Immigration examines the policy quandaries that arise from the fact that President Biden considers himself a liberal, a Catholic, and a Democrat. That self-identification has challenged aspects of his leadership and governance that have resulted in growing national controversies surrounding his abortion and immigration policies.

Thus, this book articulates Catholic moral and social teachings on these issues, the president’s perceived religious beliefs that often clash with his personal views and values, as well as his opposing political responses to them. It also explains his partisan actions to abortion and immigration that include numerous executive orders, appointments of individuals who are unable to help him develop solutions to such critical matters, and his criticisms of the Congress, the Supreme Court, and previous administration officials.

The second part of this book, then, gives examples of how policy difficulties have been overcome by various government leaders who have also dealt with critical decision-making and agenda options. It provides historical models, management methods, communication strategies, and religious principles that can be utilized to create pragmatic solutions to the problems of immigration and abortion. They can also be implemented by the president while also helping him to instill a sense of unity and justice on these policy issues in the United States.

By: Jo Renee Formicola
Imprint: Lexington Books
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 239mm, Width: 161mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 440g
ISBN: 9781666910667
ISBN 10: 166691066X
Pages: 172
Publication Date: 30 October 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jo Renee Formicola is professor of Political Science and Public Affairs at Seton Hall University.

Reviews for Joe Biden’s Policies on Abortion and Immigration: The Challenges of a Catholic President

Jo Renee Formicola offers an important and thoughtful new book on the complicated leadership and governance of President Joe Biden, America’s second Catholic President. Her book features two detailed case studies on abortion and immigration covering the period from June 2022 to May 2023, with a focus on how the administration responded to the Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson decision on abortion and to the court’s Title 42, “Remain in Mexico” decision. Professor Formicola finds that President Biden has struggled with Church teachings and that his decision-making approach has done little to implement effective and robust policy solutions. She presents a careful, balanced, and critical assessment of President Biden’s approach to these two critical and contentious policy issues. -- Paul Christopher Manuel, Mount Saint Mary's University, Georgetown University In this thorough research, with the painstaking skill of a seasoned academic, Dr. Formicola masterfully x-rays the regrettable absence of statesmanship as exemplified by President Joe Biden through his intransigence, and those of his political constituency, toward abortion and immigration. This is an important contribution to political science, political theology, Church-State relations, and Catholic Social Teaching. -- Father Valentine Iheanacho, University of the Free State, South Africa