An executive order to protect the right to abortion. Joe Biden signed it in response to the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, who guaranteed access to termination. “I ask the Department of Justice to do something, to do everything in its power to protect women who seek to protect their rights,” Biden told the White House, defining the Supreme Court decision “extreme” and “totally wrong”. “What we are witnessing was not a decision guided by the Constitution or by history, it was an exercise of pure political power.”
The executive order signed by Biden guarantees all women who want to have an abortion freedom to move from one state to another. In addition, it has formalized several instructions for the departments of Justice and Health, to allow women to access drugs more easily federal government approved abortions.
According to the president, the fastest way to restore the right to abortion would be elect more pro choice members of Congress, in November’s midterm elections, which will support federal legislation that protects access to abortion. “A law passed by Congress codifying abortion nationwide is the quickest way” to restore lost rights to women, the president said, ensuring that would sign that law “instantly” because “we cannot allow an out-of-control court to limit freedoms.”
There is no decisive action, however, that the President can take to restore the right to abortion in the US, following the ruling of the Supreme Court: Biden has publicly acknowledged that his possibilities to restore access to abortion remain limited. .
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Source: Vanity Fair
