The meeting will mark the fourth time his task force on reproductive health care access has come together since the landmark abortion ruling was overturned.
President Joe Biden will convene key members of his Cabinet on Monday to discuss abortion rights on the 51st anniversary of the Roe v. Wade ruling, according to a White House official.
The president will “hear directly from physicians on the frontlines of the fallout” since the landmark decision was reversed and detail new actions his administration is taking to strengthen access to contraception and medication abortion, as well as ensuring patients can receive emergency medical care.
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The Departments of Treasury, Labor and Health and Human Services will issue new guidance Monday to clarify standards and support expanded coverage of FDA-approved contraceptives at no cost under the Affordable Care Act for millions of women nationwide, according to the White House official.
The new effort will be launched by HHS to “educate all patients about their rights and to help ensure hospitals meet their obligations under federal law,” the White House official said.
The Office of Personnel Management will also offer new guidance to strengthen access to contraception for federal workers, retirees and family members, the official said.
The executive order Biden signed in 2022 has allowed HHS and the DOJ, FTC to fight for women’s rights to health care a lot since conservatives tried to restrict it.
Pretty impressive actually, they’re turning the overturned roe v. Wade into an opportunity to help states and health care advocates codify access to reproductive healthcare at a state level.
Timeline of the actual changes resulting from Biden’s executive order:
Notably, the administration is announcing a “comprehensive plan” to increase awareness about access to emergency medical care required under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA).
I misread the title as “incentives” at first and was so confused for a second
The president will “hear directly from physicians on the frontlines of the fallout”
Just like everything else, he waited years and now he’ll “look into” the problem because an election is coming up.
Unlike other issues he does this with, Biden is openly against abortion access. When it was legal, he said he disagreed with that, but that he would follow the law
Who actually expects him to do anything to fix it now? And if you do think he will, why did he wait?
This applies to any abortion initiative in the last 30 years.
He didn’t wait. There’s just limited options legislatively at the federal level. Conservative Democrats either don’t want to add protections, the minimal protections that they do want are very low priority, or they aren’t willing to break filibuster rules to achieve anything.
Right now, we have actual cases of women who are dying or in danger while doctors discuss with their lawyers over legalities. This has created another opportunity to push courts or the public to see reason or the law with real cases.
It’s not that it’s new. It’s just the next phase of trying to get shit done with Republican opposition and conservative apathy.
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The big reason Republicans are so fucked is they stopped holding their own politicians accountable.
If both parties do that, we’re fucked.
These are great points. I’m personally really disappointed in his actions on the climate especially, we need sweeping action more than ever and the Dems keep insisting “a step in the right direction” is the best we can do…
Fucking pathetic that you’re downvoted. We’re out of time and the neolibs are still producing record amounts of oil.
Well, the propaganda is louder than any voice, it is what it is… but thanks for giving me a little hope. Too many people, even here don’t know how to do anything but pretend everything’s okay.
If you aren’t going to riot over roe v wade, you won’t riot over the climate. Hopefully whatever comes after humans is smarter than we were.
The guy who intentionally didn’t codify roe v wade with Obama to make it a carrot for votes, is using it as a carrot for votes?
Whoda thunk? This is just a talking point by the way. Biden is a hyper conservative that does not want to make abortion a right. After his election he will quickly forget about all these abortion promises he’s making now.
The only abortions that Biden has been fighting for during his presidency is his 10.000+ post-natal abortions in Gaza.
Name the 60 Senators who were willing to vote for a bill that guaranteed abortion access in 2008. Just because there’s a (D) next to someone’s name doesn’t mean they are willing to cast that vote and there weren’t more than 54 Democratic Senators who would have (probably significantly fewer).
But yeah, go on and rail against an imagined slight and malicious act by the Obama Administration. I should be surprised that a single iota of knowledge about Congressional politics and civics is too high a bar for you and your ilk to clear.
People seriously don’t understand that a decent amount of Democrats in the '90s, '00s, and early '10s were just Republican-lite. Not moderate conservatives, but legit right of Manchin.
