The White House spoke out against the near-total abortion ban bill voted upon in Indiana this week, slamming Republican legislators for taking “away women’s reproductive rights and freedom” and putting “personal health care decisions in the hands of politicians rather than women and their doctors.”
On Saturday, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre issued a press release pushing back on the legislation voted upon in Indiana on Friday. The move made the state the first to pass severely restrictive abortion access legislation in the wake of the US Supreme Court’s June decision to overturn Roe v Wade.
