Biden announces measures to provide medicines and protection to abortion seekers

MADRID, 22 Ene. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The President of the United States, Joe Biden, has announced this Sunday the implementation of a series of measures to facilitate access to medicines for women who request an abortion, as well as new guarantees of protection for pharmacies that sell this medication, As the president has made known in a statement made on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade.

The 1973 opinion, annulled last year by the Supreme Court in an enormously controversial decision, constituted from its declaration the touchstone of North American legislation on abortion. Its annulment meant the revocation of abortion as a constitutional right and the legislation is now in the hands of each individual state.

However, the US federal government enjoys certain powers such as those used this Sunday by Biden, who has ordered the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a new support guide for providers and pharmacies to distribute medicines to patients. that they need

Similarly, the presidential memorandum also orders the implementation of a new guide to guarantee safe access to these drugs in pharmacies "free of threats and violence."

The president has lamented that the Supreme Court's decision "takes away a constitutional right from the American people" despite the fact that "women should be able to make these deeply personal decisions without political interference."

"Yet Republicans in Congress and across the country continue to push to ban abortion nationwide, to criminalize doctors and nurses, and to make birth control more difficult to access. It's dangerous, extremist, and completely alien. to reality", he lamented.

Lastly, Biden has once again called for the green light for an initiative to codify all of the Roe v. Wade in the form of federal law as "the only way that the right of women to choose in every state in the country can be guaranteed."