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WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden signed an executive order Friday aimed at protecting women’s reproductive rights, a response to rising pressure from within his party to address last month’s Supreme Court ruling revoking federal protections for abortion with greater urgency and conviction — and a new attempt to galvanize voters…

The US President signs an executive order designed to protect millions of American women's access to abortion in states where the procedure remains legal, and becomes emotional while speaking about the reported experience of a 10-year-old rape victim forced to travel interstate for the procedure.

The actions are intended to mitigate some potential penalties that women seeking abortion may face after the ruling, but his order cannot restore access to abortion in states where limits or bans have gone into effect.

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden said the “horror” unleashed by the Supreme Court’s decision to eliminate the nationwide right to abortion was already being felt across the country in his sharpest attack yet on the two-week-old ruling.

US president is under pressure to safeguard abortion rights after Supreme Court overturned landmark Roe v Wade ruling.

His presidential powers remain constrained and the executive order is expected to have a limited impact

Order directing HHS to expand access to two-pill abortion regimen criticized by some groups for not going far enough.

The order will create a new task force on reproductive health care and to coordinate additional steps to help people access abortions.

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.