(Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden on Sunday stated he has requested his administration to think about whether or not he has authority to declare an abortion-related public well being emergency in wake of the Supreme Court docket’s determination to overturn Roe v. Wade.
The feedback come after Biden on Friday signed an government order to ease entry to companies to terminate pregnancies.
Biden, a Democrat, has been underneath strain from his personal celebration to take motion after the landmark determination final month to overturn Roe v. Wade, which upended roughly 50 years of protections for ladies’s reproductive rights.
(Reporting by Tyler Clifford)
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