While light on exact details, a White House fact sheet says the order will shore up protections for patients and providers (around their data and personal safety)
Photo: SAMUEL CORUM/AFP via Getty Images Two weeks have passed since the Supreme Court dropped its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, two weeks of predictable confusion and anxiety as right-wing states enact increasingly punitive abortion restrictions. The situation was always going to be dire: With Roe v.
Today, apparently. On July 8, Biden dropped an “Executive Order Protecting Access to Reproductive Health Care Services” in answer to Dobbs. It empowers Xavier Becerra, the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, to implement protections around reproductive-health services from contraception to Plan B to abortion. It also sketches legal provisions for providers and patients who may now find themselves targeted by the state.
That’s a start, though none of it quite meets the urgency of the moment. But the measure is at least something; many of us have been waiting all this time for the party in power to act, do anything, for the love of God, why are you just sitting there. Since the Court’s conservative majority issued its ruling, Biden has maintained that this mess is beyond his power to fix with an order.
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