US President Joe Biden on Friday signed an executive order to help safeguard women's access to abortion and contraception after the Supreme Court last month overturned the Roe v. Wade decision that legalised abortion.
Biden, a Democrat, has been under pressure from supporters, particularly progressives, to take action after the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in a landmark decision that upended roughly 50 years of protections for women's reproductive rights.