Biden to issue new guidance to colleges to protect abortion access 100 days since Roe was overturned

President Joe Biden plans to item GOP efforts rolling backmost entree to termination successful a code Tuesday marking 100 days since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade's law close to terminate an unwanted pregnancy.

More than a twelve Republican-led states person efficaciously banned abortions since the court's Dobbs v. Jackson ruling that gave that authorization backmost to the states, most of which don't let for exceptions for rape oregon incest. The changes person impacted astir 30 cardinal women of reproductive property — 22 cardinal of whom cannot entree termination aft six weeks, according to the White House.

"Extreme termination bans are having consequences that widen beyond abortion, including reports of women being denied entree to indispensable prescriptions and contraception astatine pharmacies and connected assemblage campuses," Jennifer Klein, manager of the White House Gender Policy Council, wrote successful a memo up of Biden's gathering with his Task Force connected Reproductive Healthcare Access.

Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris program to talk astatine the event, rolling retired caller guidelines from the Department of Education reminding universities of their requirements to support entree to termination arsenic good arsenic $6 cardinal successful caller grants to support and grow reproductive services, according to Klein's memo.

The code comes a period retired from the midterm elections wherever Democrats are astatine hazard of losing power of 1 oregon some houses of Congress, giving Biden an accidental to item the administration's enactment connected termination and fundamentally run for candidates locked successful choky races.

Republicans successful Congress are already looking to further restrict termination access. Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina introduced a nationalist termination prohibition that would person the punishment of jailhouse clip for doctors who execute them.