President Biden and VP Harris highlighted the GOP’s push to roll back access to abortion in remarks on Tuesday.
Activists protest in the Indiana Statehouse during a special session debating on banning abortion in Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S. July 25, 2022.President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris released new guidelines from the Department of Education reminding universities of their requirements to protect access to abortion.Since Roe was overturned, more than a dozen states have effectively banned abortions, affecting nearly 30 million women of reproductive age.
"Today, extremist so-called leaders are attacking the freedom and liberty of millions of women at a state level. In Arizona for example a judge recently upheld an 1864 — that's not a statute, that's the year — 1864 abortion ban with no exceptions for rape or incest," Harris said, noting a similar ban from 1849 in Wisconsin. "That was 173 years ago. And make note that at that time women also did not have the right to vote.
"Extreme abortion bans are having consequences that extend beyond abortion, including reports of women being denied access to necessary prescriptions and contraception at pharmacies and on college campuses," Jennifer Klein, director of the White House Gender Policy Council, wrote in a memo released ahead of Biden's meeting with his Task Force on Reproductive Healthcare Access.
Biden cited an incident at the University of Idaho where staff were advised to stop offering birth control after a sweeping abortion ban was enacted across the state as the impetus for the new guidelines.
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