US President Joe Biden signed an executive order on Friday for protecting the rights of abortion after the overturn of Roe V. Wade by the Supreme Court.
Biden said in his speech at the White House: "I'm asking the Justice Department, that much like they did in the civil rights era, to do something, to do everything in their power to protect these women seeking to invoke their rights."
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He described that overturn of the landmark constitutional right as "extreme" and "totally wrongheaded," asserting: "What we're witnessing wasn't a constitutional judgment, it was an exercise in raw political power."
Moreover, Biden pointed out that the most practical way to restore abortion rights is electing more members of Congress in the upcoming midterm elections who could support the legalziation of protecting abortion access, adding that it was his "hope and strong belief that women will in fact turn out in record numbers to reclaim the rights that have been taken from them by the court."
Last month, the US Supreme Court overturned its 50-year-old Roe V. Wade decision as millions of women will lose the right to abortion.
Various states across the nation will start imposing a ban on the procedure, and almost half of the states will introduce more restrictions.
On his side, Biden described the overturn as “a tragic error” and called all states to continue executing the right of abortion for women.
Biden directed the Health and Human Services Department to provide the medications and required measures to protect the right to travel to another state for an abortion.
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