Joe Biden signs order to protect abortion rights

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08th Jul, 2022. 09:47 pm
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Joe Biden signed an executive order guaranteeing the right to an abortion.
The President is powerless to reinstate the nation’s right to abortion.
Executive order issued on Friday will compel Becerra to take action.

In response to the Supreme Court’s historic decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, President Joe Biden signed an executive order on Friday guaranteeing the right to an abortion.

“I’m asking the Justice Department, that much like they did in the civil rights era, to do something, to do everything in their power to protect these women seeking to invoke their rights,” Joe Biden said at the White House.

The Supreme Court’s ruling, the President scoffed on Friday, was “extreme” and “completely wrongheaded,” adding that “What we’re witnessing wasn’t a constitutional judgment, it was an exercise in raw political power.”

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He further said that “hope and strong belief that women will in fact turn out in record numbers to reclaim the rights that have been taken from them by the court.”

“Let me be clear, while I wish it had not come to this, this is the fastest route available,” Biden.

In the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision, the President is powerless to take any action to reinstate the nation’s right to an abortion. Biden has publicly recognized that he has few choices for increasing access to abortion.

While he thought Congress should codify Roe, Biden suggested last month that he was thinking about using executive orders, telling Jimmy Kimmel, “There’s some executive orders I could employ, we believe — we’re looking at that right now.”

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The executive order issued on Friday will compel Becerra to take action to ensure access to abortion, including broader access “to the full range of reproductive health services” including medical abortions that have received FDA approval.

The President has requested HHS to report on how the order’s provisions, which include include actions to broaden outreach and safeguard the medical and digital privacy of patients seeking abortions, have been implemented within the next 30 days.

Joe Biden signs order to protect abortion rights

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