<mediadc-video-embed data-state="{"cms.site.owner":{"_ref":"00000161-3486-d333-a9e9-76c6fbf30000","_type":"00000161-3461-dd66-ab67-fd6b93390000"},"cms.content.publishDate":1659526519746,"cms.content.publishUser":{"_ref":"00000163-45df-dc46-adfb-cdff9a380000","_type":"00000161-3461-dd66-ab67-fd6b933a0007"},"cms.content.updateDate":1659526519746,"cms.content.updateUser":{"_ref":"00000163-45df-dc46-adfb-cdff9a380000","_type":"00000161-3461-dd66-ab67-fd6b933a0007"},"rawHtml":"
$bp("Brid_59475203", {"id":"27789","width":"16","height":"9","video":"1065405"}); ","_id":"00000182-637d-df9f-abca-ffff10bb0000","_type":"2f5a8339-a89a-3738-9cd2-3ddf0c8da574"}”>Video EmbedPresident Joe Biden will sign a new executive order Wednesday aimed at protecting abortion rights following the Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization ruling.
The president will sign the order at the first meeting of the Task Force on Reproductive Healthcare Access, which Biden launched with a separate executive order on July 8, according to the White House.
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Biden’s new order is split into three specific actions:
- Directs Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra to “consider” avenues “to advance access to reproductive healthcare services,” including reimbursing Medicaid patients “who travel out of state for reproductive healthcare services”
- Directs Becerra to “consider” ways to ensure healthcare providers “comply with Federal non-discrimination laws so that women receive medically necessary care without delay,” including providing healthcare providers with new technical support and guidance about federal nondiscrimination laws
- Launch “new research and data collection on maternal health outcomes” and specifically “measure the impact that diminishing access to reproductive healthcare services has on women’s health”
Biden has come under fire from abortion rights activists for his response to the Dobbs ruling, with some claiming that the administration’s announcements amount to little real-world action.
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The president moved to protect national access to mifepristone, a Food and Drug Administration-approved abortion medication, even after more than a dozen states have enacted strict abortion bans, yet senior administration officials have discounted a number of other solutions offered by activists, including standing up abortion clinics on federal or tribal lands.
Biden has frequently said that his options to protect abortion rights through executive action remain limited and has consistently called on Congress to pass legislation codifying Roe v. Wade into law. Furthermore, Biden has urged voters to put abortion rights on the ballot in November and elect more pro-abortion rights lawmakers should Congress fail to pass abortion rights legislation.
