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Reuters
Reuters
Health
By Jeff Mason and Nandita Bose

Biden signs executive order on abortion, declares Supreme Court 'out of control'

Catalina Leona and Terri Chen, staff at Houston Women's Reproductive Services, which no longer provides abortion care, watch a livestream of U.S. President Joe Biden delivering remarks before signing an executive order which seeks to safeguard abortion access although is expected to have a limited impact, in Houston, Texas, U.S., July 8, 2022. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein

U.S. President Joe Biden said the Supreme Court decision overturning the right to an abortion was an exercise in "raw political power" and signed an executive order on Friday to ease access to services to terminate pregnancies.

Biden, a Democrat, has been under pressure from his own party to take action after the landmark decision last month to overturn Roe v Wade, which upended roughly 50 years of protections for women's reproductive rights.

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