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Biden signs executive order to defend abortion access in US

US President Joe Biden says the executive order will help 'protect the right of women to travel' to receive abortion services in the US [Kevin Lamarque/Reuters]

US President Joe Biden has signed an executive order that his administration says will help secure access to abortion and reproductive health services in the United States, two weeks after the country’s top court overturned the constitutional right to the procedure nationwide.

Biden has faced mounting pressure, including from within his own Democratic Party, to take action to defend abortion rights following the overturning of the Supreme Court’s landmark 1973 Roe v Wade decision on June 24.

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