Biden vows whole-of-government response to TX abortion law

President Joe Biden connected Thursday slammed a Supreme Court determination that allowed 1 of the strictest anti-abortion laws successful the state to instrumentality effect successful Texas.

Calling the instrumentality an "unprecedented battle connected a woman's law rights," Biden promised a "whole-of-government effort" to combat the ruling.

The law, which went into effect Wednesday, bans abortions conducted aft a fetal heartbeat is detected — often earlier women are alert they're pregnant. The instrumentality does not marque exceptions for pregnancies that effect from rape oregon incest.

The caller instrumentality besides allows individuals to writer those suspected of helping a pistillate get an amerciable abortion, with an grant of up to $10,000 — adjacent if a idiosyncratic has nary transportation to the case.

"Complete strangers volition present beryllium empowered to inject themselves successful the astir backstage and idiosyncratic wellness decisions faced by women," Biden wrote successful his statement.

On Wednesday, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 — with Chief Justice John Roberts joining the court's 3 wide judges successful dissent — that the instrumentality could spell into effect due to the fact that it "presents analyzable and caller antecedent procedural questions connected which [plaintiffs] person not carried their burden."

The precocious tribunal has halted erstwhile fetal heartbeat laws passed successful states similar Alabama and Ohio earlier going into effect, giving clip for appeals courts to measurement their legality.

In his connection Thursday, Biden criticized the 5 blimpish judges for enacting the law.

"For the bulk to bash this without a hearing, without the payment of an sentiment from a tribunal below, and without owed information of the issues, insults the regularisation of instrumentality and the rights of each Americans to question redress from our courts," the connection read. "Rather than usage its ultimate authorization to guarantee justness could beryllium reasonably sought, the highest Court of our onshore volition let millions of women successful Texas successful request of captious reproductive attraction to endure portion courts sift done procedural complexities."

Later successful his statement, Biden instructed the Office of the White House Counsel to enactment with the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Justice to find steps the Biden medication could instrumentality to "ensure that women successful Texas person entree to harmless and ineligible abortions..what ineligible tools we person to insulate women and providers from the interaction of Texas' bizarre strategy of outsourced enforcement to backstage parties."