Biden Calls Professional-Life Agenda ‘Extremist’ Whereas Rolling Out Government Order on Abortion

President Joe Biden signed an government order Friday selling abortion.  

“It is a second, the second, a second to revive the rights which have been taken away from us and the second to guard our nation from an extremist agenda,” Biden stated, repeating himself as he spoke to the nation from the White Home. 

The president’s government order, known as “Defending Entry to Reproductive Healthcare Providers,” states that abortion is a non-public determination and “shouldn’t be topic to authorities interference.”  

His order says that the federal authorities “is taking motion to guard healthcare service supply and promote entry to crucial reproductive healthcare companies, together with abortion.”  

Biden described the order whereas flanked by Vice President Kamala Harris and Well being and Human Providers Secretary Xavier Becerra. 

The order duties the Division of Well being and Human Providers with trying into methods to “broaden entry to abortion” throughout the nation. It directs HHS to launch a public consciousness marketing campaign about abortion and contraception assets. 

It says the aim is to be sure that “pregnant ladies and people experiencing being pregnant loss, akin to miscarriages and ectopic pregnancies—obtain the total protections for emergency medical care,” and to make sure that ladies’s well being data is saved personal.  

Biden’s order establishes an Interagency Activity Pressure on Reproductive Healthcare Entry that it says will work to “shield and strengthen” entry to abortion. 

Throughout his remarks, Biden stated the Supreme Courtroom’s June 24 determination to overturn its 1973 ruling in Roe v. Wade “was not a call pushed by the Structure.” 

“Let me say it once more,” the president stated. “This was not a call pushed by the Structure.”  

It’s been two weeks for the reason that justices overturned Roe v. Wade of their 5-4 ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Ladies’s Well being Group, which stated the Structure doesn’t embody a proper to abortion. The excessive court docket’s determination in Roe had legalized abortion throughout the nation.

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“Few choices are as constitutionally fraudulent as Roe v. Wade,” Thomas Jipping, a Heritage Basis senior authorized fellow, advised The Every day Sign in an e mail Friday disputing the president’s repeated assertion.  

“Nobody, together with the president, even tries to defend [Roe]. Everybody ought to learn the Structure and the Supreme Courtroom’s rationalization in Dobbs v. Jackson Ladies’s Well being Group for overruling Roe, and determine for themselves,” Jipping stated.  

Earlier than signing the manager order, Biden exhorted the “ladies on this nation” to vote for pro-abortion candidates in November.  

“We want two further pro-choice senators and a pro-choice Home to codify Roe as federal legislation,” Biden stated.  

If Congress passes such laws, the president pledged, he would signal it into legislation instantly. He additionally promised to veto any federal laws banning abortion.  

Republicans are discussing laws to ban abortion after 15 weeks of being pregnant.  

“So long as I’m president, it gained’t occur, as a result of I’ll veto it,” Biden stated. “So, the selection is evident. If you wish to change the circumstance for ladies and even little ladies on this nation, please exit and vote.”  

Biden’s order and remarks come as Ladies’s March and different pro-abortion teams strain him to take motion and “codify reproductive rights.”  

“Battle to guard the ladies that introduced you to energy or step apart and [we’ll] elect somebody who will,” Rachel O’Leary Carmona, government director of Ladies’s March, stated in a written assertion directed on the president. 

“You may have the ability to declare a public well being emergency on abortion, codify reproductive rights by way of government motion, and broaden the court docket,” Carmona stated, including: “Be our champion and use that energy.” 

Ladies’s March plans a rally Saturday within the nation’s capital to “put our our bodies on the road” and take “the struggle for abortion rights again to Washington D.C.,” the group’s web site says.  

The protest is a part of pro-abortion activists’ “Summer season of Rage,” by which they pledge to protest in favor of abortion all through the summer time. 

“Regardless of half a century of Roe v. Wade poisoning our legal guidelines, courts, and tradition, ballot after ballot continues to point out an everlasting consensus: People reject the Biden commonplace of abortion at any time for any purpose,” Melanie Israel, a coverage analyst within the Richard and Helen DeVos Middle for Life, Faith, and Household at The Heritage Basis, advised The Every day Sign. (The Every day Sign is Heritage’s multimedia information group.) 

“The professional-life motion seeks to guard each harmless human life in legislation and construct a tradition of life the place everybody can thrive,” Israel stated.  

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