The US president, Joe Biden, announced this Sunday the implementation of a series of measures to facilitate access to medicines for women who intend to abort, as well as new protection guarantees for pharmacies that sell this medicine.
The decision was announced by Joe Biden in a statement made on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the “Roe v. Wade” decision, which since 1973 federally protects the right to abortion up to 23 weeks of gestation.
In June of last year, the US Supreme Court, which currently has a large conservative majority, reversed this decision, leaving abortion policy up to individual states.
However, the US federal government enjoys certain powers, such as those that Biden took advantage of this Sunday, who ordered the Ministry of Health and Human Services to create a new guide to support providers and pharmacies in distributing medicines to patients who need them, reports . Europa Press news agency.
Likewise, the presidential memorandum also determines a new guide to guarantee safe access to these medicines in pharmacies “free of threats and violence.”
The president lamented that the Supreme Court decision “deprives the American people of a constitutional right,” despite the fact that “women can make these deeply personal decisions without political interference.”
“Yet Republicans in Congress and across the country continue to insist on banning abortion nationwide, criminalizing doctors and nurses, and making birth control more difficult to access. It’s dangerous, extremist, and completely out of touch with reality.” lamented Biden.
Finally, the President of the United States again called for the green light to be given to an initiative to codify all the protections provided in the “Roe V. Wade” decision into federal law as “the only way to guarantee the right to choose of women in all the states of the country”.
Source: TSF
