Biden Signs Executive Order Aimed at Making Sure Women Can Get Abortions

President Joe Biden on July 8 signed an executive order aimed at ensuring women can get abortions.

Biden directed the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to expand access to various methods of abortion, including a Food and Drug Administration-approved pill called Mifeprex that can be taken to kill a fetus up to the 10th week of pregnancy. The agency will also make sure pregnant women have access to emergency medical care and step up efforts to educate the public on abortion access.

Biden also directed his administration to review potential actions to protect the privacy of Americans who seek information about abortion and women who obtain abortions.

“There’s an increasing concern that extremist governors and others will try to get that data off of your phone, which is out there in the ether, to find what you’re seeking, where you’re going, and what you’re doing in regard to your health care,” Biden said in prepared remarks at the White House in Washington before signing the order.

In addition, the White House announced that Attorney General Merrick Garland, a Biden appointee, and White House lawyers will convene a group of attorneys and outside groups to encourage representation of women seeking abortions, including representing women who travel to another state to get the procedure done.

Order Doesn’t Protect Dangers of Pill: Expert

Dr. James Studnicki, vice president of data analytics at the Charlotte Lozier Institute, told The Epoch Times via email that the safety of abortion pills is “greatly exaggerated,” pointing to a study of emergency rooms and data from Europe and California.

“The increasing dominance of chemical abortion and its disproportionate contribution to emergency room morbidity is a serious public health threat, and today’s Executive Order does nothing to address or mitigate the very real dangers to women, which are

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