‘Congress Must Codify Roe v. Wade for all the States in America’
Biden's action to safeguard access to abortion on what would have been Roe's anniversary
President Biden called on Congress to codify the same abortion rights American women had for nearly 50 years, before the US Supreme Court upended those rights in 2022.
Biden made his remarks heading into his reelection year, on what would have been the 51st anniversary of the landmark decision Roe v Wade, which the Supreme Court’s right-wing supermajority overturned in the summer of 2022.
The president also announced several executive actions his administration is taking to do what it can to safeguard as much access to abortion as it can as that access now is being restricted — or banned outright — across wide swaths of the nation.
“As I’ve made clear, we have to do what the Supreme Court decision in Dobbs would allow, and that is: Congress must codify Roe v. Wade for all the states in America,” Biden said, referring to the ruling in the case Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization which the high court used to overturn Roe. “Stop playing politics with the women’s lives and freedom. Let doctors do their job. Let me say it again: Pass laws restoring the protections of Roe v. Wade for women in every state.
“That’s what can be done under even under the Dobbs decision,” Biden added. “But under this court, that is going to be constitutional if we pass it nationwide. That’s what I’m working for. I’m working for that law.”
The president also convened a meeting at the White House of his Task Force on Reproductive Healthcare Access, where federal agencies announced new actions to protect access to reproductive health care.
These include:
Strengthening contraception access and affordability for women with private health insurance;
Educating patients and healthcare providers on their rights and obligations for emergency medical care, when a pregnancy becomes dangerous or a threat to the life of a woman; and
Protecting access to safe and legal medication abortion.
Details on these actions were included in a fact sheet released by the White House.
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