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Two weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, President Joe Biden is scheduled to sign an executive order on access to abortion on Friday, three sources familiar with the matter told The Associated Press.
The White House said Biden will speak Friday morning “about protecting access to reproductive health services.” It is expected to describe actions to try to mitigate some potential sanctions that women seeking abortion may face after sentencing, but have limited capacity to safeguard access to abortion nationwide.
President Joe Biden speaks before awarding the Presidential Medal of Freedom to 17 people at the White House in Washington on Thursday, July 7, 2022. (Photo AP / J. Scott Applewhite)
According to the PA report, Biden is expected to instruct the Justice and Health and Human Services departments to reject any state effort to limit a woman’s ability to cross state borders for a legal abortion or for abortion. obtain federally approved abortion drugs.
In another attempt to protect women seeking an abortion, Biden’s executive order will also tell agencies to work to educate medical providers and insurers about how and when to share inside information from patients with authorities. It will also call on the Federal Trade Commission to take steps to protect the privacy of those seeking information on reproductive care online.
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Pro-elections met in front of the Washington Supreme Court on Friday, June 24, 2022. (Photo AP / Jose Luis Magana)
The White House said Vice President Kamala Harris will attend the president’s remarks Friday morning before meeting with state legislative leaders in Indiana, Florida, South Dakota, Nebraska and Montana who are “fighting on the front lines for protect reproductive rights “.
Many on the left have criticized the president for not doing more after the annulment by the Court of Roe v. Wade, who effectively put an end to the recognition of a constitutional right to abortion and gave individual states the power to allow, limit, or prohibit the practice altogether.
Biden, for his part, stressed that its ability to protect access to abortion in states where officials plan to restrict or ban it is limited, and stressed that Congress has the ability to codify abortions. rights to abortion.
“Ultimately, Congress will have to act to codify Roe into federal law,” he said a week ago, but the Senate probably wouldn’t have enough votes. He also reminded pro-election voters that they will be voting in November.
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“If extremist governors try to prevent a woman from traveling from a state that prohibits her from seeking the medical help she needs in a state that provides such care, we will act to protect her fundamental rights,” Biden tweeted Thursday. add hours later. “If states try to prevent a woman from receiving drugs that the FDA has already approved and that have been available for more than twenty years, we will act to protect that woman’s right to that drug.”
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Biden also said Wednesday that the filibuster should not prevent Roe coding. “But right now, we don’t have the votes to change the obstruction. That means we have to pick more Democratic senators and re-elect our majority in the House in November to bring this bill to my desk.”
Life supporters and their children, in the foreground, sing religious songs while election supporters wave their signs and shout to be heard above the song, while everyone is in front of the Organization’s clinic. of Jackson Women’s Health in Jackson, Mississippi, Thursday. , July 7, 2022. (Photo AP / Rogelio V. Solis)
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On Tuesday, she tweeted: “Personal freedoms are on the ballot” this November, but until then her administration “will do everything in its power to ensure women have access to the medicines they need and have the freedom to travel to look for them “. the care they need “.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.