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Edited title, I originally wrote "2014", as pointed out in comments

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[–] Ranvier@sopuli.xyz 19 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/06/23/fact-sheet-biden-harris-administration-highlights-commitment-to-defending-reproductive-rights-and-actions-to-protect-access-to-reproductive-health-care-one-year-after-overturning-of-roe-v-wade/

If you have any other ideas besides the ones linked above of what the president can do to protect reproductive rights with executive actions alone I'd like to hear them.

And with a republican president at the helm instead? They could wreak havoc with basically opposite orders of everything in that linked list, even in the states where it's legal. Or sign a republican federal law banning abortion nationwide. Like, just look at what states are passing laws to protect reproductive rights and what states are doing the opposite, there's obviously a party trying to protect abortion access and one trying to eliminate it.

Criticize away that democrats didn't use that few weeks in 2009 or the last super majority before that in 1979 to codify roe v wade (though they didn't have pro choice super majorities at either of those times by any means so I'm not sure how they would have gone about that), but I'm skeptical of anyone who focuses on that and not obvious current events and actions the Biden admin has taken since roe v wade was struck down. Encouraging voter apathy and flipping elections to republicans is going to make everything a whole lot worse. Give pro choice (and ideally pro overturning the filibuster and pro reform the supreme court) candidates enough control of congress though and hopefully we can get some more change for the better.