President Joe Biden said Thursday that the Supreme Court's decision to temporarily allow Texas law prohibiting abortion after six weeks of pregnancy to remain in effect (when most people don't even know they are) "It requires an immediate response" and he, he added, came to the White House to "
react to attacks of this type
" against women's rights.
Thus, Biden announced in a statement that he has ordered a combined effort from his entire Government to respond to this decision, and especially from the Department of Health and the Department of Justice to see what steps they can take to ensure that people in Texas have access to their right to abortion as guaranteed by the historic Roe vs. Wade ruling for almost half a century.
In the view of Biden, who is Catholic, this law
"triggers unconstitutional mayhem"
by allowing private citizens to become vigilantes of their compliance in exchange for a reward of up to $ 10,000 for reporting abortions but also the drivers who take them to the clinic and, of course, the doctors and other workers.
"Complete strangers will now have the power to meddle in one of the most private decisions of women," he added.
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The law is so extreme, he said, that it does not even allow exceptions for rape or incest, so that a woman's assailant could report her if she tries to have an abortion after the attack, and even win a $ 10,000 reward for doing so.
The president also condemned the conservative majority of the Supreme Court (which made this decision by five votes to four, and opposed by the president of the court, the conservative John Roberts) for allowing
the health of millions of women to be put in danger.
while the courts decide on the future of the controversial law.
