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Update 6\/9\/22<\/strong>: Pro-abortion senators<\/a> have sent a letter<\/a> to President Biden, urging him to protect abortion at the federal level, including increasing access. The letter was spearheaded by Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass) and Patty Murray (D-Wash).<\/p>\n

\u201cAbortion access is under attack in the United States and already completely eliminated in swaths of the country,\u201d the letter reads. \u201cAfter decades of activism by Republican extremists, the Supreme Court is poised to overturn\u00a0Roe v. Wade<\/i>, reversing nearly 50 years of settled law and eviscerating the right to a legal abortion.\u201d<\/p>\n

The senators call on Bident to use federal resources to increase abortion access, allow federal agencies to provide vouchers for travel and child care expenses for abortion-minded women who live in pro-life states, increase access to the abortion pill, and appoint an ombudsman at HHS to oversee abortion.<\/p>\n

5\/15\/22<\/strong>: According to Reuters<\/a>, President Biden is considering a variety of measures, including executive orders, to support so-called abortion \u201caccess\u201d in a post-Roe<\/em> America. Press Secretary Jen Psaki told<\/a> reporters on Tuesday that the President has asked the White House Gender Policy Council, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and the White House Counsel\u2019s Office to draft a plan \u201cto protect women\u2019s rights.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt may not all be executive orders … a lot of this is ensuring that we have increased access and funding so that women who are living in the states, if Roe<\/em> were to be overturned, would be able to have expanded access and capabilities and some of that could be from the Department of Justice [DOJ],” Psaki said<\/a>.<\/p>\n

She explained that the DOJ is being prepped to defend abortionists, pharmacies that dispense the abortion pill, and women who obtain abortions from criminal cases and lawsuits. However, these prosecutions and lawsuits would presumably be under individual states\u2019 laws, and, according to its own website<\/a>: \u201cThe Department of Justice has no authority to intervene in matters of state law. The Department of Justice can assume jurisdiction only when there has been a violation of federal law.\u201d<\/p>\n

READ: President Biden acknowledges that abortion kills a \u2018child\u2019 as he decries possible end of Roe<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

One measure being considered by the administration is pressuring the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to make the abortion pill more readily available, perhaps by making it easier for people to order it online, across state lines, and from overseas. This would presumably be according to what is known as the \u201cno-test protocol<\/a>,\u201d in which no prior screening for gestational age or potential complications is performed. However, in spite of abortionists\u2019 claims<\/a> to the contrary, no-test chemical abortions<\/a> have proven to be potentially dangerous. Furthermore, making the pill available for delivery by mail is a system that has been repeatedly<\/a> abused<\/a> by predators<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Biden administration is also considering asking HHS and the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to allow Medicaid funds to be used for travel expenses for low-income women seeking abortion outside of their home states. This would require American taxpayers to subsidize abortion, regardless of their personal convictions.<\/p>\n

Reuters reports that \u201c[t]he Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) and the Surgeon General’s Office could also be tapped to put out a report on the \u2018profound physical, mental and emotional impact on women from not having access to reproductive health services.\u2019\u201d But abortion is not a \u201creproductive health service\u201d because abortion destroys the results of reproduction after it has already taken place<\/em>, and because legitimate health care is about curing, not killing.<\/p>\n

Press Secretary Psaki told reporters the White House would not detail the specifics of its plans until after the Supreme Court issues its final decision<\/a> in Dobbs v Jackson Women\u2019s Health Organization<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Update 6\/9\/22: Pro-abortion senators have sent a letter to President Biden, urging him to protect abortion at the federal level, including increasing access. The letter was spearheaded by Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass) and Patty Murray (D-Wash). \u201cAbortion access is under attack in the United States and already completely eliminated in swaths of the country,\u201d the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":788,"featured_media":259958,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[3473,11],"tags":[19,11650,1708,17346,908,10512,17344,1792,951,10699,913,703,4957,144,197,17345,17347,13760],"yoast_head":"\nBiden considering executive orders to force legal abortion post-Roe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"President Biden may use executive orders to keep abortion legal if Roe v. 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