The president’s executive order is in response to the Supreme Court’s ruling that ended the nationwide right to abortion and left it to states to determine whether or how to allow the procedure.
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Facing pressure, Biden to sign order on abortion access
President Joe Biden will take executive action to protect access to abortion and speak Friday morning ‘on protecting access to reproductive health care services.’
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Some states, including Maine, move to protect abortion from prosecutions elsewhere
Gov. Janet Mills said she will ‘stand in the way of any effort to undermine, rollback, or outright eliminate the right to safe and legal abortion in Maine.’
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Letter: Act now to address abortion access crisis
We are in a crisis moment for abortion access. Nearly half of all women of reproductive age – over 36 million women and even more transgender and nonbinary people that could need an abortion – have lost access to safe, legal abortion in the United States. As a supporter of reproductive health care, I am […]
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Judge rejects challenge of Mississippi law that would ban most abortions
The law – which state lawmakers passed before the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the 1973 ruling that allowed abortions nationwide – is set to take effect Thursday.
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Hundreds protest in Portland on the Fourth for abortion rights
Later, they marched up Congress Street to the city’s annual fireworks display on the Eastern Promenade.
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Google to delete user data on trips to abortion clinics, other location info
Google also cited counseling centers, fertility centers, addiction treatment facilities, weight loss clinics and cosmetic surgery clinics as other destinations that will be erased from users’ location histories.
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Biden brainstorms abortion response with Democratic governors
The president has repeatedly stressed there’s little his administration can do unless more lawmakers who support abortion rights are elected to Congress.
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Shifting abortion laws cause confusion for patients, clinics
The legal wrangling is almost certain to continue to cause chaos for Americans seeking abortions in the near future, with court rulings able to upend access at a moment’s notice.
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Alabama uses abortion ruling to argue for ban on medical care for transgender youth
Alabama is using the U.S. Supreme Court decision on abortion to argue that the state should also be able to ban gender-affirming medical treatments for transgender youth.