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>> i think we need to do more. i think, quite frankly, in congress this week we're taking up two bills. one to protect those women who are traveling from states where abortions are outlawed, to other states such as illinois where they can get reproductive health services. we also need to codify roe. of course we're going to be taking up another bill to do that this week, but in the senate, unfortunately, there's a filibuster in place with regard to that legislation, which means we have to get more senators elected to potentially create a carveout within the filibuster to allow for roe v. wade ...

But, i mean, there are also opportunities to be successful in these blue states where state legislators who had not previously codified roe, are now doing that. governors like governor newsom in california, and the governor of oregon, the governor of washington, jay ensley that in formed an alliance in the west coast that are saying, we are going to do everything that we can in these states to protect the right to choose. that serves as a model for other governors and other state legislatures. there is a lot of that frustration, alicia. and yet, there -- it is true that the president himself c...

Sure that we are preserving the decisions around this most personal type of medical care, to be with the women who are pregnant. and, let them in consultation with their doctors, with their families, with their faith make the decisions so this is going to be and all of the above strategy to return these decisions to who they belong, and that is the women of this country. >> representative clark, vice president harris spoke about the fight ahead this morning on cbs. take a listen. >> will this administration do to try to codify roe, to try to, through congress put into law some of these priorit...

Abortions, protect privacy as they warn americans on the data on the tracking and to use every tool available to protect access to reproductive health care. it does things that the president already outlined especially in the first speech the day the decision was announced. it really had very few additional and new like steps that this administration is going to take. instead the president made the case as he has done before that, really, his ability is limited unilaterally on what he can do. the stroke of his pen. he said change is going to come from people. it's going to come from political ...

The bbc�*s james clayton in san francisco there and now, staying in the us. president biden has signed an executive order which he says will help safeguard women's access to abortion. it's in response to the supreme court overturning the landmark ruling that made the procedure legal across the united states. speaking at the white house, mr biden condemned the judge's decision. what we're witnessing wasn't a constitutionaljudgement, it was an exercise in raw political power. on the day the dobbs decision came down, i immediately announced what i would do. but i also made it clear, based on th...