On Friday, President Joseph Biden issued an executive order to protect reproductive rights after the Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to abortion in the Dobbs decision. Here's what it means for abortion rights and access:
decision. The executive order announces actions to expand access to medication abortion and contraception as well as ensure pregnant women’s access to accurate reproductive health information and emergency care. The order also takes steps to protect privacy of patients’ reproductive health information and promote safety of patients, providers and clinics. To achieve these goals, Biden orders the formation of an interagency task force on reproductive healthcare access.
“We commend the president for making it clear that the full weight of the government will be brought to bear on the legal and public health crisis unfolding across our country,”Fatima Goss Graves, president and CEO of the National Women’s Law Center. “This crisis is here because of a decades-long strategy where extremist politicians took over our courts, restricted our right to vote, and gerrymandered their districts in order to deny us economic security, equality and freedom.
This crisis is here because of a decades-long strategy where extremist politicians took over our courts, restricted our right to vote, and gerrymandered their districts in order to deny us economic security, equality and freedom.The executive order directs the secretary of health and human services to submit a progress report to the president within 30 days.
Biden’s executive order first directs HHS to take actions to protect and expand access to abortion medications regulated by the FDA. The executive order builds on the Biden administration’s of a longstanding requirement that doctors dispense the abortion pill mifepristone in person as well as a ban on pharmacies’ distributing the medication.the remaining unnecessary restrictions on mifepristone, including the requirement that doctors must register with the drug manufacturer to prescribe the medication, pharmacies must be certified to dispense the medication and that the medication can only be used through 10 weeks of pregnancy.
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