Posted on 12/06/2022 6:33:42 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is still actively searching for ways to safeguard abortion access for millions of women, even as it bumps up against a complex web of strict new state laws enacted in the months after the Supreme Court stripped the constitutional right.
Looking to seize on momentum following a midterm election where voters widely rebuked tougher abortion restrictions, there’s a renewed push at the White House to find ways to help women in states that have virtually outlawed or limited the treatment, and to keep the issue top of mind for voters.
In reality, though, the administration is shackled by a ban on federal funding for most abortions, a conservative-leaning Supreme Court inclined to rule against abortion rights and a split Congress unwilling to pass legislation on the matter.
Meanwhile, frustration on the ground in the most abortion-restricted states is mounting.
“This is not going away anytime soon,” said Jen Klein of the Biden administration’s Gender Policy Council. “Tens of millions of Americans are living under bans of various sorts, many of them quite extreme, and even in states where abortion is legal, we’re all seeing the impact on providers and on systems being loaded by people who are coming across state lines.”
The administration, meanwhile, is implementing Biden’s executive orders signed in July and August that directed federal agencies to push back on abortion restrictions and protect women traveling out of their state to seek one, though some women’s rights advocates say it doesn’t go far enough.
And there are still other avenues left for the administration to explore, said Kathleen Sebelius, a former U.S. health and human services secretary.
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At one time ALL STATES deemed abortion as a crime. How the hell did it become some kind of right?? There is no such thing.
When has that stopped Sniffer?
At one time ALL STATES deemed abortion as a crime. How the hell did it become some kind of right?
At one time most Americans believed in and feared God!
“the Supreme Court stripped the constitutional right.”
The Supreme Court stripped nothing from the constitution.
These ‘tards are experts at propaganda. If someone ever says this to me I will challenge them to go find this “right” written in the constitution.
“ after the Supreme Court stripped the constitutional right.”
That tells you all you need to know about AP. That is an editorial comment not news.
“Tens of millions of Americans are living under bans of various sorts, many of them quite extreme...”
Let them pack up and move to the deep blue states then if killing babies is so important to them. Good riddance.
How the hell did it become some kind of right??
The democrat damage list is a long one and gets added to by the day.
Look at all the damage they have done in the last two years and counting.
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