The U.S. President delivered an impassioned plea for Americans upset by the decision to 'vote, vote, vote vote' in the November midterms.
His executive order also directs agencies to work to educate medical providers and insurers about how and when they are required to share privileged patient information with authorities — an effort to protect women who seek or obtain abortion services.
Since the decision, Biden has stressed that his ability to protect abortion rights by executive action is limited without congressional action, and stressed that Democrats do not have the votes in the current Congress to do so. He predicted that women would turn out in "record numbers" in frustration over the court's decision and said he expected "millions and millions of men will be taking up the fight beside them."Biden tries to safeguard reproductive rights with executive orderU.S. President Joe Biden has signed an executive order to safeguard some reproductive rights across the country.
But Lawrence Gostin, who runs the O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health at Georgetown Law, described Biden's plans as "underwhelming."
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