Biden weighs authority to declare abortion-related public health emergency after Roe v. Wade overturned
By Nandita Bose
(Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden on Sunday mentioned he has requested his administration to contemplate whether or not he has authority to declare an abortion-related public well being emergency after the Supreme Court docket overturned the Roe v. Wade choice that legalized abortion nationwide.
The feedback come after Biden on Friday signed an govt order to ease entry to companies to terminate pregnancies.
Biden was on his method to a motorbike experience close to his residence in Delaware when he stopped to talk to reporters, who requested if he was contemplating declaring a public well being emergency concerning abortion entry. The president responded that he was asking his employees to see “whether or not I’ve the authority” and what the impacts can be.
Biden, a Democrat, has been underneath strain from his personal social gathering to take motion after the landmark choice final month to overturn Roe v. Wade, which upended roughly 50 years of protections for ladies’s reproductive rights.
On his cease to talk with reporters, Biden mentioned his purpose was to codify abortion rights by laws and delivered a message to abortion rights protesters who’ve gathered exterior the White Home.
“Maintain protesting. Maintain making your level. It’s critically necessary,” he mentioned. “We are able to do quite a lot of issues to accommodate the rights of girls.”
(Reporting by Nandita Bose; Writing by Tyler Clifford in New York; Enhancing by Chizu Nomiyama)
