{"id":1527929,"date":"2022-06-24T13:35:46","date_gmt":"2022-06-24T17:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1527929"},"modified":"2022-06-24T13:35:51","modified_gmt":"2022-06-24T17:35:51","slug":"squad-members-call-on-biden-to-declare-public-health-emergency-in-wake-of-roe-ruling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/squad-members-call-on-biden-to-declare-public-health-emergency-in-wake-of-roe-ruling\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Squad\u2019 Members Call on Biden To Declare Public Health Emergency in Wake of Roe Ruling"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsquad-members-call-on-biden-to-declare-public-health-emergency-in-wake-of-roe-ruling%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1527929&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>A coalition of 20 black congresswomen, led by &#8220;Squad&#8221; member Ayanna Pressley (D., Mass.), on Thursday\u00a0wrote a letter to President Joe Biden that urged him to declare a public health emergency in anticipation of a Supreme Court decision to overturn <em>Roe<\/em> v. <em>Wade<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The Court on Friday <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/courts\/life-wins-supreme-court-strikes-down-roe-v-wade\/\">overturned<\/a> the seminal 1973 abortion-rights decision.<\/p>\n<p>The congresswomen <a href=\"https:\/\/embed.documentcloud.org\/documents\/22066916-cbc-women-letter-to-biden-on-roe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">urged<\/a> the president to use &#8220;any and all executive authorities&#8221; to work against the Court&#8217;s decision\u2014including &#8220;declaring a public health emergency and national emergency.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Court&#8217;s decision does not prohibit abortion but rather returns the issue to the states, a majority of which allow\u00a0the procedure. Just 5 percent of Americans consider abortion the most important issue facing the country, Gallup <a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/1675\/most-important-problem.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> last month. By contrast, 55 percent say that inflation under President Joe Biden is the most important issue, the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/americans-still-care-more-about-inflation-than-abortion\/\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The letter says that pro-life measures are &#8220;unprecedented and calculated attacks on our bodily autonomy&#8221; that harm &#8220;the lives and freedom of Black women.&#8221; While black women <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kff.org\/womens-health-policy\/state-indicator\/abortions-by-race\/?currentTimeframe=0&#038;sortModel=%7B%22colId%22:%22Location%22,%22sort%22:%22asc%22%7D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">get<\/a> more abortions than women of any other race, just 32 percent of black Americans support abortion on demand without restrictions, a Gallup poll <a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/opinion\/polling-matters\/318932\/black-americans-abortion.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">found<\/a> in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The letter&#8217;s call comes as threats of\u00a0pro-abortion violence intensify against <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/anarchists-take-credit-for-vandalizing-four-pro-life-churches-in-washington-state\/\">churches<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/abortion-activists-firebomb-another-pro-life-office\/\">pro-life organizations<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/courts\/shut-it-down-radical-leftwing-group-plans-to-blockade-supreme-court\/\">Supreme Court<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/abortion-activists-firebomb-another-pro-life-office\/\">justices<\/a>. While the Department of Homeland Security <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/courts\/homeland-security-prepares-for-violence-after-supreme-court-abortion-ruling\/\">sounded the alarm<\/a> about a wave of violence following the Court&#8217;s decision, the Biden administration, which supports abortion rights, has <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/pro-life-facilities-are-under-attack-a-top-doj-official-called-them-fake-clinics\/\">done little<\/a> to stem the tide.<\/p>\n<p>Pressley was not the only prominent far-left Democrat to sign the letter. Fellow &#8220;Squad&#8221; members Ilhan Omar (Minn.) and Cori Bush (Mo.), as well as Los Angeles mayoral candidate Karen Bass, also called for a post-<em>Roe<\/em> public health emergency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A coalition of 20 black congresswomen, led by &#8220;Squad&#8221; member Ayanna Pressley (D., Mass.), on Thursday\u00a0wrote a letter to President Joe Biden that urged him to declare a public health<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":894,"featured_media":1891439,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1527929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_finder_url":"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/squad-members-call-on-biden-to-declare-public-health-emergency-in-wake-of-roe-ruling\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/894"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1527929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1891439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1527929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1527929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1527929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}