Biden to host virtual meeting with governors to ‘protect women’s reproductive health’ after abortion ruling

President Biden will meet nearly Friday with a gaggle of governors whose states have “moved swiftly” to “defend girls’s reproductive well being” following the Supreme Court’s ruling to overturn Roe v. Wade.

A White House official stated the president is internet hosting an occasion Friday afternoon to meet with governors “from throughout the nation in a virtual meeting,” only a week after the excessive courtroom introduced its choice to return the issue of abortion again to the states after practically 50 years. 

“President Biden will be a part of from the White House and speak with governors whose states have moved swiftly post-Dobbs choice to defend girls’s reproductive well being,” the White House official stated.

Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker, California Gov. Gavin Newsom, Oregon Gov. Kate Brown and Washington Gov. Jay Inslee are anticipated to participate within the president’s occasion.

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Lamont signed a first-in-the-nation legislation that protects medical suppliers and sufferers looking for abortion care in Connecticut who could also be touring from different states which have outlawed abortion. Additionally, that legislation expands abortion entry in Connecticut by increasing the kind of practitioners eligible to carry out sure abortion-related care.

Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont delivers the State of the State handle throughout opening session on the State Capitol Feb. 9, 2022, in Hartford, Conn.
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Earlier this month, Hochul signed a package to further preserve, protect and strengthen abortion rights for sufferers and suppliers in New York, a state the place Medicaid covers the price of an abortion.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul debates within the race for governor on the studios of WNBC4-TV June 16, 2022, in New York City.
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In New Mexico, Lujan Grisham signed an executive order to defend medical suppliers from makes an attempt at authorized retribution. The order protects well being care suppliers from “self-discipline due to an out-of-state resident receiving abortion providers within the state” and makes clear it should “not cooperate with extradition makes an attempt from different states the place prison prices are being pursued towards the person for receiving or performing reproductive providers.”

Minnesota and Massachusetts additionally just lately took related government motion.

And in Illinois, Pritzker is ready to name a particular session of the General Assembly to concentrate on laws to strengthen girls’s entry to abortion.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks at a information convention in Oakland, Calif
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California, Oregon and Washington issued a multi-state commitment to defend entry to reproductive well being care, together with abortion and contraceptives, and commitments to defending sufferers and docs towards efforts by different states to implement their abortion bans within the three western states.

Meanwhile, an official stated the White House “waited till the tip of the overseas journey to announce this occasion, however it’s taking place the president’s first day again, with out him skipping a beat.”

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The president, throughout a press convention from Spain on the sidelines of the NATO summit Thursday, teased the meeting, telling reporters he’s “meeting with a gaggle of governors once I get dwelling on Friday.”

Crowds outdoors the Supreme Court reacting to the Dobbs ruling.
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“The before everything factor we should always do is make it clear how outrageous this choice was and the way a lot it impacts not only a woman’s right to choose, which is a essential, essential piece, however on privateness usually,” Biden stated. “And so I’m going to be speaking to the governors as to what actions they suppose I needs to be taking as nicely.” 

The president once more careworn that the U.S. ought to “codify Roe v. Wade into legislation, and the best way to do that’s to be sure the Congress votes to do this.

“And if the filibuster will get in the best way, it is like voting rights, we should always require an exception to the filibuster for this motion,” he added.

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Biden had beforehand referred to as on Congress to codify Roe following the Supreme Court’s June 24 ruling, however he had not referred to as for ending the filibuster. Biden has solely beforehand referred to as for the measure throughout his effort to move voting reforms, which didn’t succeed.

The filibuster is a threshold of 60 votes within the Senate that is obligatory earlier than a chunk of laws is given an up or down vote.

If Democrats needed to set up a brand new filibuster precedent, they may achieve this with 51 votes — all 50 senators within the Democratic caucus, plus Vice President Harris breaking the tie.