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administration vowing to help women get abortion services but facing pressure from some democrats, saying the administration did not do enough before roe was overturned kristen welker now has more reporter: president biden at critical diplomatic talks as the administration grapples with intensifying fallout over abortion rights back home. we will do everything within our power as an administration through the executive branch to ensure that women have access to the medication they need reporter: today the secretaries of health and human services, labor and treasury writing a joint letter to insurers saying the affordable care act requires contraception coverage the president and top democrats are also now trying to make abortion rights a top midterm issue, aiming to energize critical voters including suburban women but some progressive democrats saying simply telling americans to go vote for democrats is too little too late. i do believe that there has been a weak democratic st
challenges are only likely to delay the law from taking effect. the biden administration is vowing to protect what remains mounting pressure from his own party saying he did not do enough before roe was overturned. kristen welker has more. as the administration grapples with increasing fallout of abortion rights back home. we will do everything we can in our power as an administration through the branch to make sure women have access to the medication they need. the secretary of health and human services, labor, and treasury, writing a joint letter to insurers saying contraception coverage is required, and a top midterm issue, aiming to energize critical voters including suburban women but
the project on the globe, alexis mckennon is here and claire is with us for the hour and all of them are msnbc contributors. what were you watching this weekend? it was too much for me. i had to sort of dole out my newsites inand doses, but i wonder if you can just tell me what struck you of the weekend? yeah. you know, what i ve been thinking most about are a couple of things. one, the fact that if the idea was to reduce the number of abortions in this nation that when you look at the data, actually abortions went down after obama care passed when there was increased access to contraception coverage for insurers. when women have access to contraception they re able to make decisions about their lives, you see abortions drop. what you ve seen recently is an
revisit some of the questions we talked about yesterday with regard to free exercise of religion. of course that is recognized explicitly under the united states constitution and the first amendment, right? yes. are you familiar with the cases that have been litigated before with regard to the affordable care act s mandate on contraception coverage? yes. now the little sisters of the poor benevolent group of nuns come i think there s about 300 of them to take care of elderly and infirm individuals, and of course as a matter of their religious beliefs have documented in the courts opinions they don t believe in either contraception or abortion. do you agree with that?