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re: Biden Calls For Fed Law to Restore Abortion Rights & Expands Obamacare
Roe v Wade: Joe Biden Vows Legal Challenge to Ban on Abortion Pill
President Biden Vows to Fight For Abortion Rights After Roe v Wade Overturned
TRUMP Was Influent on Roe v Wade Supreme Court Ruling
President Joe Biden vowed to take action to protect women’s rights by fighting to stop states from banning abortion pills, after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade on Friday.
26 Jun 2022 9 News Australia
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The US Supreme Court has ended constitutional protections for abortion that had been in place nearly 50 years in a decision by its conservative majority to overturn Roe v. Wade.
Friday's outcome is expected to lead to abortion bans in roughly half the states.
The US President also warned anti-abortion states they would be breaking the law if they stopped women travelling to other parts of America to reach clinics.
It came as Democrats launched a desperate fightback after America’s top court – now dominated by conservative justices – threw out the 50-year-old ruling guaranteeing abortion as a nationwide constitutional right.
The seismic ruling further crystallised divisions in America and led to protests across the country that continued on Saturday.
After major protests across the US on Friday, hundreds of protesters again descended on the Supreme Court on Saturday, chanting “my body, my choice”.
Several states, including Missouri, Louisiana, Kentucky, Wisconsin and South Dakota, instituted immediate abortion bans, with up to half the US states poised to follow.
Setting up a new legal front, Mr Biden’s administration indicated it would try to prevent anti-abortion states from banning Mifepristone, one of the pills used for medical abortions, which are potentially a way for women to continue to access abortion even in states where it is banned.
Lawyers for the federal government will argue that the US Food and Drug Administration’s approval of Mifepristone in 2000 overrides state restrictions.
Pills were used in 54 per cent of all abortions in the US in 2020, according to research by the Guttmacher Institute.
Already this week, the governor of Louisiana signed a new law making it punishable by up to 10 years in prison, and a fine of up to $75,000, to bring abortion pills into the state by post.
Abortion as a Nationwide Constitutional Right
Mr Biden said attempts to restrict medical abortion would be “wrong and extreme and out of touch with the majority of Americans”.
He added: “We’re going to take action to protect women’s rights and reproductive health.
“The decision [to ban abortion] is implemented by states, and my administration is going to focus on how they administer it, and whether or not they violate other laws – like deciding to not allow people to cross state lines to get public health services.”
Mr Biden, speaking at the White House before departing for the G7 summit in Germany, said he thought the Supreme Court decision was “shocking” and “terrible”.
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