Biden enlists White House counsel to fight Texas abortion law
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden on Thursday said he is launching a "whole-of-government effort," including from the White House counsel, to combat a strict new Texas abortion law after an overnight Supreme Court decision let it stand.
Biden, a Democrat and a Catholic who has shifted to the left on abortion in recent years to be more in line with his party's base, called the law that bans any abortion after six weeks an "unprecedented assault on a woman's constitutional rights."
The president said in a statement he was directing the office of the White House counsel and his Gender Policy Council to review how the government could "ensure that women in Texas have access to safe and legal abortions... and what legal tools we have to insulate women and providers from the impact of Texas’ bizarre scheme of outsourced enforcement to private parties."
The White House will specifically look at what measures can be taken through the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Justice, Biden said.
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