This week, a number of congressional Democrats spoke with Fox News Digital to say they support President Biden’s efforts to defend abortion rights, despite progressive criticism that he is not moving quickly enough in the wake of the Roe v. Wade decision, Fox News informed.
Democrats also emphasize that Republicans who support the Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision and the court itself should be the targets of Americans’ ire.
Following Dobbs, other states with Republican governors have already outlawed abortion.
Progressives want the president to act quickly to guarantee women can access abortions because more states are likely to follow suit in the upcoming weeks and months.
An executive order from the president, according to the New York Times editorial board, “does little more than ask the secretary of health and human services to explore for methods to better enforce [federal regulations on reproductive care] and report back,” the newspaper wrote last week.
Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., argued that Biden is only using a small set of executive powers.
He claimed that altering the Senate filibuster, which Biden has stated he favors, would be the answer.
Representative Hank Johnson (D-GA) said that executive action is hardly ever taken. He also said that Roe v. Wade has been overturned by the Supreme Court and that it is now up to the states to decide what to do further.
Johnson added that there isn’t really much a president can do to change it but that the legislative branch must now take action.
The White House claims it is considering a number of further possible moves it can take without legislative backing, in addition to Biden’s more restrained executive order from last week.
Declaring a public health emergency is one of them, according to Jennifer Klein, co-chair of the White House Gender Policy Council.
Voters, according to DCCC Chair Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney of New York, have to decide between ‘MAGA’ Republicans seeking to restrict access to abortion and Democrats who would uphold Roe v. Wade.
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