Vice President Mike Pence urged his rivals for the Republican presidential nomination to support a 15-week federal abortion ban - at minimum.
One year after the decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, both sides are leaning into the issue. Biden on Friday issued an executive order seeking to bolster access to contraception and picked up a trio of top-level endorsements at the rally with Vice President Kamala Harris, first lady Jill Biden and Harris' husband, Doug Emhoff.
"I am so proud of the bold actions that this administration has taken to protect patients and to protect providers to give them accurate information and to let them know they are not alone," said Alexis McGill Johnson, president and chief executive of Planned Parenthood Action Fund. Since the Supreme Court overturned the landmark 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade, which legalized abortion, 20 states have passed either a ban or highly restrictive policies on abortion. A year after fall of Roe, 25 million women live in states with abortion bans or tighter restrictions. But 22 states and the District of Columbia have expanded access to abortion care.
She said Friday this was not an issue of abortion rights, it was an issue of freedom. "Freedom to make decisions about one's own life, one's own body. The freedom to be free from government interference when it comes to one's private decisions. Decisions that are about heart and home."
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