{"id":271461,"date":"2022-07-01T16:37:24","date_gmt":"2022-07-01T21:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=271461"},"modified":"2022-07-02T00:32:25","modified_gmt":"2022-07-02T05:32:25","slug":"hhs-secretary-xavier-becerra-announces-options-table-protect-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/hhs-secretary-xavier-becerra-announces-options-table-protect-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra announces ‘all options on table’ to protect abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Xavier Becerra has proclaimed that “all options are on the table” for the Biden Administration to protect abortion, including using federal funds for abortion travel, placing abortion facilities on federal land, and further expanding the use of chemical abortion (the abortion pill).\u00a0The statement comes on the heels of the U.S. Supreme Court’s June 24 decision in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization<\/em> case which overturned Roe v. Wade<\/em> and Planned Parenthood v. Casey<\/em>, which he called a “moment of crisis in healthcare.”<\/p>\n

“This is a critical moment in history. How we respond will speak to how we view the rights, dignity and wellbeing of women everywhere. This is a moment of crisis in health care. We will leave no stone unturned. All options are on the table. We will do everything within the legal limit of the law to reach patients and support providers,” Becerra stated in a June 28 speech also\u00a0published<\/a> at the HHS website where he mentioned that he was at a Planned Parenthood abortion facility and later traveled to a separate abortion facility when the Supreme Court decision was released.<\/p>\n