Biden says he’s mulling health emergency for abortion access
July 12, 2022
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CWN Editor's Note: President Joe Biden said on July 10 that he may declare a public health emergency in order to free up federal funds to help mothers abort their children.
Two days earlier, Jen Klein, the director of the White House Gender Policy Council, said that declaring a public health emergency “didn’t seem like a great option. When we looked at the public health emergency, we learned a couple things: One is that it doesn’t free very many resources ... And it also doesn’t release a significant amount of legal authority.”
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