In the wake of the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe. v. Wade, the executive order attempts to protect the reproductive rights of those who will now need to access care from other states.
where abortion is now, or soon will be, illegal, aren't expecting help from the government anytime soon.on Friday, protecting abortion access for all those who will need to cross state lines to access care.
"This isn't some imagined horror," he said. "It is already happening. Just last week, it was reported that a 10-year-old girl was a rape victim -- 10 years old -- and she was forced to have to travel out of state to Indiana to seek to terminate the pregnancy and maybe save her life." The executive order calls for the protection of mobile clinics near the borders of states that restrict abortion access and the provision of legal help to people traveling between states to get an abortion.
While it's important that people have access to accurate information, reports and recommendations won't bring abortion care to pregnant people in affected states. They need a way to get medication through the mail, or the money needed to travel, and until the U.S. has enough support for reproductive rights in the Senate to make abortion access the law of the whole land again, grassroots efforts like abortion funds may offer the best hope to those that are currently stranded.
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