Following demands from abortion rights advocates and members of Congress to bolster federal protections for abortion care, President Joe Biden signed an executive order directing federal agencies to protect access in the wake of the US Supreme Court’s decision to revoke a constitutional right to abortion.
The order – which he signed on 8 July, two weeks after the ruling in Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization – arrives as several states have already outlawed abortion entirely in nearly all instances or severely limited access to care.
