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WASHINGTON President Biden directed his administration Thursday to reverse actions by the Trump administration that Biden said had hurt women s access to reproductive healthcare and made it harder for people to enroll in Affordable Care Act (ACA) health insurance and in Medicaid.
The executive orders and memorandum that Biden signed are to undo damage [former president] Trump has done, said Biden. There is nothing new that we re doing here other than restoring the Affordable Care Act and restoring Medicaid to the way it was before Trump became president he made more inaccessible, more expensive, and more difficult for people to qualify for either of those two items, said Biden.
SCOTUS Issued a Blow to Abortion Pills by Mail, But Advocates Arenât Giving Up
Reproductive justice activists are urging Biden to back access to abortion pills after a setback from the Supreme Court.
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There has been a quiet revolution in access to abortion pills in the United States over the past six months â and whether it continues depends on the new Biden-Harris administration.
Last July, a federal court suspended a rule that requires patients to go to a health center in person to pick up mifepristone, the first pill in a two-step process for medication abortion. The court sided with SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, allowing providers to mail mifepristone during the COVID-19 pandemic. But on January 12, the Supreme Court reinstated the rules, leaving in doubt the future of a landscape which advocates like Elisa Wells, co-founder of the medication abortion adv
Democrats and abortion activists are renewing the call to end the Hyde Amendment, which prohibits federal funding for abortion. Instead, they want tax dollars to go towards a woman’s “deeply personal life decisions.” But when American taxpayers are forced to pay for that decision, abortion – the ending of a human life – surfaces as a public matter in a very obvious way.
On December 8, the House Appropriations Committee held a nearly three-hour hearing on “The Impact on Women Seeking an Abortion but are Denied Because of an Inability to Pay.” House Democrats and abortion activists centered their remarks around the same argument: that Hyde is a racist policy that targets low-income women of color.