(CNN)President Joe Biden has passed the Supreme Court's decisionto overturn theRoe v. Wade case for months. Has also supported. Authorities say he is prepared to put pressure on theWhite House to act with massive protests, even though there is little he can do through administrative measures to ease the court's ruling. is doing.
Friday's announcement suspends the White House's months of emergency response plans and lobbying by abortion advocates who want Biden to take immediate action. The president condemned the court's decision in his speech aired from the White House early Friday afternoon and lamented what he called "a sad day for the court and the country."
According to people familiar with the debate, the steps the president is considering behind the scenes are to remove barriers to access to drug abortion and to go out of state to have an abortion. Includes disputing state law that criminalizes travel.
Vice President Kamala Harris talks about how law enforcement agencies use time-tracking apps to monitor abortions and the potential for embryo destruction to be more difficult for in vitro fertilizers. I heard from a privacy expert. Advocates of color communities and undocumented immigrants have raised specific concerns with the White House about women in those groups who access abortion across state boundaries. And state legislators demanded more federal resources to help manage what many describe as an impending crisis.
"We are looking for all options to respond to future decisions and protect access to assisted reproductive technology, including abortion," said Jennifer, Chairman of the White House Gender Policy Council. Klein said at a virtual meeting on Wednesday.
Therefore, some supporters and lawmakers seek rhetorical leadership of the president who has avoided accepting the right to abortion altogether. He rarely uses the word "abortion" itself-the lack of disrespect for his aides says supporters are still symbolic.
"Now is the past era of this president and this administration, and it is time to explain what is happening as a moral failure and a public health and human rights crisis in this country. Now is the time to shout the word abortion. "
New Mexico, a state without restrictions on the major types of abortion, is in a position to accept an influx of patients from neighboring states such as Texas if national rights to abortion are eliminated. I have. Cadena's appeal to the White House was to be prepared to help a state like her when a woman seeking an abortion travels there in search of an abortion.
"Keeping our doors and clinics open for people from all over the country will be a stretch for us. We are ready and our The values are there, but it's a stretch and it's going to be a reality, which has been done for decades. "
The White House keeps the card close to the vest
"We believe there are some executive orders I can adopt. We are considering it now," he said in early June.
White House spokeswoman Alexandra Ramanna said the Biden administration "continues to explore as many options as possible in response to the expected Supreme Court ruling," prior to the ruling. However, he did not mention any specific actions the president might take.
"A contrast between the president, who believes that all Americans should defend their right to make decisions, and the radical MAGA policy proposed by Republican officials, including an abortion ban without exception. Is outstanding, to make rape, incest, and abortion women and the doctors who carry them out criminals, "Ramanna said. "And dismantling reproductive freedom is only the first step. The Roe v. Wade case pushes the government further into people's lives and threatens rights such as contraception and access to marriage equality. However, White House officials say that the president can unilaterally maintain access to contraception for millions of women living in states that are currently expected to be outlawed. In a conversation with supporters, the White House heard a variety of options, all of which were supportable and could withstand legal scrutiny. Not limited. Concerns have been raised among some lawyers, and the provision of federal funding for women to travel outside the state may violate the banned law, the Hyde Amendment. In almost all cases, federal funding for contraception.
Other options are more feasible for authorities, such as making it easier for women to obtain contraceptives by mail. However, legal hurdles remain.
At a meeting with the leader of Reproductive Justice last month, White House officials were on their way to access a clinic outside the state. We heard concerns about undocumented women's access to contraception that could risk deportation by passing checkpoints at
"People without immigration documents. Is unlikely to go out of the state and seek contraceptive treatment because of the risk of checkpoints and arrests, adding a layer of criminalization, "said Chief Policy Yvonne Sue. Government Secretary of the National Asia Pacific American Women's Forum attending a meeting with White House officials. "I think it really has a chilling effect for the color community and the immigrant community, so what we're doing is making sure they know that these barriers already exist.
A long process to understand the next steps
The process of coming up with the president's options is for the court to overturn the Roe v. Wade case. However, work accelerated after the draft opinion was leaked. This surprised some White House officials about how widespread the ruling could be.
Biden himself learned of the draft opinion late May 2 when his Chief of Staff Ron Klain called him at the White House residence and explained the leak. In the weeks since then, White House officials have virtually met with dozens of representatives of reproductive rights groups, state legislators, and private law experts to discuss future paths.
According to White House officials, senior White House officials have also met weekly with planned parent-child relationships and NARAL Pro-Choice America leaders since the draft opinion was leaked.
"They are what we are hearing, how the people we work with in the field, our partners, the people in the community are reacting, and we I really want to hear what we are seeing from what we expect. Now I think they are really thinking about their response. They want to do something, but in the information I'm trying to do that in a based way, "Sue said.
This work has been led by the White House Gender Policy Council and its director, Klein, and the White House adviser Dana Remus and Susan Rice, director of the National Policy Council. rice field.
Harris also plays a leading role in convening independent discussions with advocates, religious leaders and legal experts to ensure the protection of certain security and security rights. We have collected various perspectives and policy ideas on how the government can intervene. Roe is turned over.
In a privacy-focused conversation on June 14, Harris was a constitutional lawyer and digital, such as a period tracker, according to New York University reproductive rights expert Melissa Murray. Partially focused on technology questions. discussion.
"She is right there, not only about the type of nuance of the problem, but also the best way to explain this to the public so that she can understand what is really the problem. Thinking and asking a really good question: "Murray said about the conversation.
Menstruation tracking apps and IVF
supporters in the limelight I'm afraid that data from the menstrual tracking app could be used to prosecute a woman who is or is seeking an abortion in the current state. Illegal. Harris said, " "Whether these individual private bodies probably play a role in limiting the amount of data that can be handed over to state authorities interested in prosecuting abortion," Murray said.
Brennan Center for Justice Women and Democracy Fellow Jennifer Weiss Wolf, who participated in the discussion, said Harris was particularly in the letters of Massachusetts Democratic Senators Elizabeth Warren and Patty Murray. He said he was interested in the idea. Washington sent it to Biden in June. The president called on the Department of Health and Human Services to clarify how websites and apps that collect reproductive information should protect sensitive data.
Harris has also raised the role of the Federal Trade Commission in these efforts. The group then discussed the prospects of requiring manufacturers of tampons and pads to provide more accurate information about early pregnancy and menstruation in their products.
"We talked about some of the more creative things that are already on the table, and she was very enthusiastic about all sorts of ideas. These are our country. But these are steps that governments can take to protect us and fill the gaps that make our lives more dangerous, "said Weisswolf. Says.
Another issue raised is that if the state adopts the perspective that embryos are fetuses, those who fertilize embryos by IVF procedures may face restrictions on their destruction. It was that there was. Judge Samuel Alito described abortion in a leaked draft.
"I told the Vice President that I was more worried about what I call a sideswipe," said Professor Glenn Cohen of Harvard University. "The idea is that we are really aiming for abortion, but we will introduce a language that is related to in vitro fertilization and will create uncertainty."
Concerns about violence
The outlook for large-scale protests after the ruling is of concern to some White House officials. Biden has revealed his opposition to the violence surrounding the decision and recently signed a law to extend the security of the 24-hour system to the families of Supreme Court judges.
After the leak of the draft opinion, protests across the country were generally peaceful, but the law enforcement of the capital Authorities are prepared for potential safety risks. Last month, an eight-foot-high, non-expandable fence was installed around part of the Supreme Court building, and crew members installed a jersey barrier to block the street in front of the court.
In conversations with groups and supporters, the White House sees what the reaction to the ruling looks like, encouraging community leaders to lead frustration and anger into constructive action. I tried to measure.
During an early June conversation with a Los Angeles religious leader, Harris asked a diverse group of clergy what to preach on the weekend after the decision was made.
He said, "While the world is upside down, this is what we believe as a religious community and where we go. Mobilize as we move forward. You will be able to do it. "
