Biden weighs up using federal sites for abortion care as legal challenges mount | FarrahTomazin
: US President Joe Biden is considering using military bases, veterans’ hospitals and other federal hubs to expand abortion care as he comes under growing pressure to respond more forcefully to the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn the constitutional right to end a pregnancy.
“The rights of millions of women around this country are now falling on the shoulders of just a handful of states,” Hochul told Biden. The latest example is Oklahoma, where abortion providers on Saturday filed a lawsuit challenging two separate abortion bans with criminal penalties.
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