Biden signs new executive order on abortion rights: 'Women's health and lives are on the line'

Aug 04, 2022 View Original Article
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"The order directs Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra to consider all appropriate actions to ensure health care providers comply with federal non-discrimination laws so that women receive medically necessary care without delay, including steps to provide health care providers with technical and legal guidance amid the patchwork of state legal restrictions on abortion care following the Supreme Court's decision."
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8% Conservative
"President Joe Biden on Wednesday signed an executive order to help ensure access to abortion in light of the Supreme Court's decision earlier this summer to eliminate the constitutional right to the procedure."
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-18% Liberal
"Biden signed the executive order during the inaugural meeting of the administration's recently established Task Force on Reproductive Healthcare Access, which is comprised of representatives from multiple departments across the federal government."
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10% Conservative
"The order directs Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra to consider all appropriate actions to ensure health care providers comply with federal non-discrimination laws so that women receive medically necessary care without delay, including steps to provide health care providers with technical and legal guidance amid the patchwork of state legal restrictions on abortion care following the Supreme Court's decision."
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6% Conservative
"Wednesday's executive order is the second one signed by Biden in the wake of the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade."
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6% Conservative
"Last month, Biden signed an order that he said would safeguard access to abortion care and contraceptives, protect patient privacy and establish an interagency task force to use every federal tool available to protect access to reproductive health care."
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2% Conservative
"It was a vote that Biden celebrated at the White House."
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-8% Liberal
"Biden spoke of the chaos and uncertainty that has ensued in the wake of the Supreme Court's decision and said, Women's health and lives are on the line."
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"And the voters of Kansas sent a powerful signal that this fall the American people will vote to preserve and protect the right and refuse to let them be ripped away by politicians, Biden said at the event."
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-16% Liberal
"President Joe Biden on Wednesday signed an executive order to help ensure access to abortion in light of the Supreme Court's decision earlier this summer to eliminate the constitutional right to the procedure."
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-6% Liberal
"Emergency medical care being denied to women experiencing miscarriages, doctors uncertain about what they can do to provide for their patients, pharmacists unsure whether they can fill prescriptions that they've always filled before, a tragic case of rape survivors, including a 10-year-old girl forced to travel to another state for care, Biden said before signing the order."
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-20% Liberal
"Ultimately, however, there is no action the President can take to restore the nationwide right to an abortion, and Biden has publicly acknowledged that his options to expand abortion access remain limited."
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54% : The order directs Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra to consider "all appropriate actions to ensure health care providers comply with federal non-discrimination laws so that women receive medically necessary care without delay," including steps to provide health care providers with technical and legal guidance amid the patchwork of state legal restrictions on abortion care following the Supreme Court's decision.
41% : President Joe Biden on Wednesday signed an executive order to help ensure access to abortion in light of the Supreme Court's decision earlier this summer to eliminate the constitutional right to the procedure.

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