Biden Signs Executive Order to Help Women Cross State Lines for Abortions
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President Joe Biden on Wednesday signed an executive order to help women cross state borders to receive abortions.
This marks the president's second executive order aimed at preserving abortion rights since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade, which effectively allowed states to implement their own abortion restrictions. The new directive calls on the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to "consider" allowing Medicaid funds to be used for facilitating out-of-state abortion travel. Before signing the order, Biden said that Republicans "don’t have a clue about the power of American women" and that "they found out" on Tuesday night after Kansas voted against removing abortion protections from its state constitution.
Biden has been facing pressure from Democrats to pass stronger federal laws that protect abortion rights. The Justice Department on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against Idaho’s contentious abortion ban, marking the Biden administration's first legal action against state-enforced abortion restrictions. While Democrats are attempting to codify federal abortion protections, several corporations have pledged to cover their employees' travel costs for out-of-state abortions.
Left-rated coverage highlighted reports of women who "need medical care for miscarriages" being denied by doctors that are struggling to navigate "byzantine" abortion restrictions. Right-rated coverage accentuated how allocating Medicaid funding to abortion travel would be "likely violating" the Hyde Amendment, which prohibits the federal financing of abortion.
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Biden signs new executive order on abortion rights: ‘Women’s health and lives are on the line’President Joe Biden on Wednesday signed an executive order to help ensure access to abortion in light of the Supreme Court’s decision earlier this summer to eliminate the constitutional right to the procedure.
The President said the order helps women travel out of state to receive abortions, ensures health care providers comply with federal law so women aren’t delayed in getting care and advances research and data collection “to evaluate the impact that this reproductive health crisis is having on maternal health and other health conditions and outcomes.”
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Biden signs abortion order, says Republicans clueless about women's powerPresident Joe Biden said on Wednesday the Supreme Court and Republicans are clueless about the power of American women as he signed a second executive order aimed at protecting abortion rights.
The order asks the federal health department to consider allowing Medicaid funds to be used to help facilitate out of state travel for abortions. Like Biden’s first order signed in July, it is meant to address the recent Supreme Court decision to end the nationwide constitutional right to abortion.
It is expected to have limited impact, as Republicans in...
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Biden Signs Executive Order Directing Medicaid Funding to Abortion TravelPresident Biden signed an executive order Wednesday that will allow Medicaid funds to be used to facilitate travel for women seeking abortions in states where the procedure is still legal, likely violating the Hyde Amendment, which prohibits the federal financing of abortion.
The order will assist the acquisition of “reproductive health care for women who live in states where abortions are banned,” Biden said at the first meeting of the Interagency Task Force on Reproductive Healthcare Access on Wednesday. He claimed it also “advances research and data collection to evaluate the impact...
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