U.S. attorney general vows to protect existing reproductive rights

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Justice Division will use each software at its disposal to guard reproductive freedom, and federal companies could proceed to offer reproductive well being companies to the extent licensed by federal regulation, Lawyer Basic Merrick Garland mentioned after Friday’s U.S. Supreme Court docket ruling on abortion.

“This choice offers a devastating blow to reproductive freedom in the US. It can have an instantaneous and irreversible affect on the lives of individuals throughout the nation,” Garland mentioned in an announcement. “And it is going to be drastically disproportionate in its impact – with the best burdens felt by folks of coloration and people of restricted monetary means.”

(Reporting by Doina Chiacu; modifying by Jonathan Oatis)