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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) is leading the call for President Joe Biden to seek workarounds in states that are restricting abortion rights after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
At a protest in Union Square on Friday evening, the congresswoman urged the White House to open abortion clinics on federal grounds to ensure access to abortion with the nationwide right overturned after nearly 50 years.
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“There are also actions at President Biden’s disposal that he can mobilize,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “I’ll start with the babiest of the babiest of baby steps: Open abortion clinics on federal lands in red states right now.”
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) also posed the idea during a news conference earlier in the day, just hours after the Supreme Court ruling Friday in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization case.
“[Biden should] explore just how much we can start using federal lands as a way to protect people who need access to abortions in all the states that either have banned abortions or are clearly on the threshold of doing so,” Warren told reporters. “There is much we can do at the federal level administratively under current law. We need to do it.”
Several liberal lawmakers, including Ocasio-Cortez, appeared at the Supreme Court on Friday. Some renewed calls to codify abortion rights and expand the court, pejoratively called “packing the court” by critics, a move that proponents argue would counteract a conservative high court stacked with three of former President Donald Trump’s picks.
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The ruling also renewed calls to end the Senate’s 60-vote filibuster, which would enable senators in a Democratic-controlled chamber to pass more liberal policy goals despite slim majorities.
