The Biden Administration continues to take action to protect women’s reproductive rights

On the 51st anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision, President Joe Biden said efforts to protect women’s access to reproductive health care will continue. Wade, which established a constitutional right to abortion, President Joe Biden said efforts to protect women’s access to reproductive health care will continue.

The President recalled that a year and a half ago, the Supreme Court decided to overturn Roe v. Wade, denying women the constitutional right to abortion.

“As a result, tens of millions of women live in states with excessive and dangerous abortion bans,” Biden said in a statement released by the White House on Monday. – Because of Republican elected officials, women’s health and lives are at risk. In states across the country, women are being denied emergency room admissions, forced to go to court to get permission for the medical care they need, and forced to travel hundreds of miles to get medical care.”

As the president recalled, Americans in many states have “strongly rejected” attempts to restrict reproductive freedom, but “Republicans continue to push for a federal ban and devastating new restrictions across the country.”

“On this day and every day, Vice President Harris and I stand up to defend women’s reproductive freedom against the dangerous, excessive, and incompatible with reality plans of Republican officials,” Biden said in a statement.

The president called on Congress to “once and for all” restore Roe v. Wade into federal law.

The Washington Post reported that the White House is announcing new measures Monday to ensure access to contraception, abortion drugs and emergency abortions in hospitals.

Biden is expected to host a meeting of the White House Task Force on Reproductive Health Monday.

Vice President Harris will begin a tour of several states, including Wisconsin, where she is expected to criticize a proposal by state Republicans to ban abortions after 14 weeks of pregnancy. Wisconsin’s Democratic governor has already said he will veto the bill.

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