Biden condemns Supreme Court ruling on Texas abortion law as unprecedented assault on women's rights
President Joe Biden on Thursday blasted the Supreme Court justices who rejected an effort by abortion-rights advocates to stop Texas' restrictive abortion law from taking effect.
The overnight ruling by five of the high court's conservatives, including all three of former President Donald Trump's appointees, "is an unprecedented assault on a woman's constitutional rights under Roe v. Wade, which has been the law of the land for almost fifty years," Biden said in a searing statement.
The law bans most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy — before most women have even discovered they are pregnant — and empowers private citizens to sue anyone who "aids and abets" in the procedures, among other rules.
In doing so, the law "unleashes unconstitutional chaos and empowers self-anointed enforcers to have devastating impacts," Biden said.
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Biden launches federal effort to respond to Texas law as he faces pressure to protect abortion
A new Texas law that effectively bans most abortions prompted President Joe Biden on Wednesday to use a word he'd entirely avoided as president: "Abortion."
The absence of the word in Biden's public remarks and statements has frustrated activists, who say it reflects an issue that fell off the priority list even as women's right to an abortion comes under threat in states across the Midwest and South.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday night formally denied a request from Texas abortion providers to freeze the state law, meaning it will remain on the books for now. Abortion providers in the state have already turned away patients, uncertain of their potential legal exposure.
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Biden said he was launching a "whole of government" effort to respond to the law, tasking the Department of Health and Human Services and the Justice Department "to see what steps the Federal Government can take to ensure that women in Texas have access to safe and legal abortions." He said the effort would be led from within the White House.
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Biden to assess possible federal response to Texas abortion ban
President Biden on Thursday said he is directing his administration to look into ways to protect abortion access for women in Texas after the Supreme Court refused to block the state's law that bans almost all abortions
Biden decried the 5-4 decision as an "unprecedented assault" on a woman's right to an abortion under the precedent of Roe v. Wade and warned it will result in harmful consequences for millions of women in the nation's second most populous state.
"By allowing a law to go into effect that empowers private citizens in Texas to sue health care providers, family members supporting a woman exercising her right to choose after six weeks, or even a friend who drives her to a hospital or clinic, it unleashes unconstitutional chaos and empowers self-anointed enforcers to have devastating impacts," Biden said in a statement.
"For the majority to do this without a hearing, without the benefit of an opinion from a court below, and without due consideration of the issues, insults the rule of law and the rights of all Americans to seek redress from our courts," Biden added. "Rather than use its supreme authority to ensure justice could be fairly sought, the highest Court of our land will allow millions of women in Texas in need of critical reproductive care to suffer while courts sift through procedural complexities."
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