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Skip to content Sections SEARCH Politics SUBSCRIBE FOR $1/WEEKLog in Saturday, June 24, 2023 Today’s Paper SUBSCRIBE FOR $1/WEEK Politics|Biden Warns That Republicans Are Not Finished on Abortion https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/24/us/politics/biden-republicans-abortion-roe-v-wade.html * Give this article * * * 2 U.S. ABORTION LANDSCAPE * A Year Without Roe * Impact on Clinics * Decrease in Legal Abortions * Tracking Abortion Bans * Your Questions, Answered Advertisement Continue reading the main story Supported by Continue reading the main story BIDEN WARNS THAT REPUBLICANS ARE NOT FINISHED ON ABORTION A year after the end of Roe v. Wade, Biden administration officials are working with a limited set of tools, including executive orders and the bully pulpit, to galvanize supporters on abortion rights. * Give this article * * * 2 * Read in app A poll found that one in four Americans said that restrictive abortion bans enacted at the state level have made them more supportive of abortion rights.Credit...Haiyun Jiang for The New York Times By Katie Rogers and Zolan Kanno-Youngs Reporting from Washington June 24, 2023Updated 10:41 a.m. ET Minutes after the Supreme Court voted to overturn Roe v. Wade last summer, a group of West Wing aides raced to the Oval Office to brief President Biden on the decision. As they drafted a speech, Mr. Biden was the first person in the room to say what has been his administration’s rallying cry ever since. Passing federal legislation, he told the group, was “the only thing that will actually restore the rights that were just taken away,” recalled Jen Klein, the director of the White House Gender Policy Council. But if the prospect of codifying Roe’s protections in Congress seemed like a long shot a year ago, it is all but impossible to imagine now, with an ascendant far-right bloc in the House and a slim Democratic majority in the Senate. Instead, with the battle over abortion rights turning to individual states, officials in the Biden administration are working with a limited set of tools, including executive orders and the galvanizing power of the presidency, to argue that Republicans running in next year’s elections would impose even further restrictions on abortion. Advertisement Continue reading the main story “Make no mistake, this election is about freedom on the ballot,” Mr. Biden said Friday at a Democratic National Committee event, where he collected the endorsements of several abortion rights groups. On Saturday, Vice President Kamala Harris was set to deliver a speech in North Carolina marking the one-year anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision to eliminate the constitutional right to an abortion after almost 50 years. Ms. Klein, who recalled refreshing news websites on the day the decision came down last June, said that she was “shocked but not surprised” by the court’s ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. MORE ON ABORTION ISSUES IN AMERICA * In Wyoming: A Wyoming judge temporarily blocked the first state law specifically banning the use of pills for abortion, the most common method in the country, a week before it was scheduled to take effect. * Iowa: An attempt to ban abortion in Iowa after six weeks of pregnancy failed after the State Supreme Court deadlocked over whether to vacate a lower court’s injunction and allow the ban to take effect. * Oklahoma: The state’s Supreme Court said that two recent abortion bans are unconstitutional, but the ruling does not affect an older law which still prohibits most abortions in the state. * South Carolina: A judge temporarily blocked a new law restricting abortion access after six weeks of pregnancy. She added that “efforts to really take extreme action do not represent the majority of opinion of where people are on this.” The White House has argued that Mr. Biden is reaching the legal limits of his powers through executive actions. On Friday, his latest executive action in response to the Dobbs decision ordered federal agencies to look for ways to ensure and expand access to birth control. Advertisement Continue reading the main story Mr. Biden previously has issued a memorandum to protect access to abortion medication at pharmacies and taken action to protect patients who cross state lines to seek care. The Justice Department has taken legal action against some states restricting abortion. And the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of the abortion-pill drug mifepristone was quickly challenged in the courts. (In April, the Supreme Court issued an order to preserve access to the pill as litigation continues.) Image The Biden campaign and the Democratic National Committee will make abortion a primary focus of the president’s re-election effort.Credit...Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times As the White House has clarified its message around abortion rights, framing the fight as one in support of privacy, safety and civil rights, so has the president. Mr. Biden, a Catholic who attends mass almost every week, has struggled throughout his career with defending abortion rights. Since Roe was overturned, he has grown more outspoken. “I think that he is somebody who really has his own personal views, and has also been quite clear that Roe v. Wade was rightly decided,” Ms. Klein said. Recent polling shows that a majority of Americans may feel similarly. A USA Today/Suffolk University poll conducted earlier this month found that one in four Americans said that restrictive abortion bans enacted at the state level have made them more supportive of abortion rights. Another poll, conducted by PBS NewsHour, NPR and Marist, said that 61 percent of American adults support abortion rights. Advertisement Continue reading the main story Some activists suspect that some Republican presidential candidates are paying attention to the polling. Mike Pence, the former vice president and presidential candidate, said on Friday that he would support a 15-week national ban on the procedure. Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina has also backed such a ban. Other candidates have avoided a definitive stance. Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida signed a six-week abortion ban into law in his state, though he has not said whether he would support a national ban. “It was the right thing to do,” Mr. DeSantis said Friday of signing the law. The G.O.P. primary front-runner, former President Donald J. Trump, takes credit for appointing the Supreme Court justices who overturned Roe v. Wade, but he has so far also resisted embracing a federal ban. As the G.O.P. field assembles, the Biden campaign and the Democratic National Committee will make abortion a primary focus of the president’s re-election effort. Earlier this month, the Biden campaign launched an advertisement campaign focused on battleground states, including the funding of billboards in Times Square that will highlight Republican efforts to restrict abortion access. The Democratic National Committee is also encouraging local Democrats to press Republicans to specify what their position is on national bans, believing it will help contrast Mr. Biden’s approach with extremist positions, according to a D.N.C. official. Advertisement Continue reading the main story Inside the White House, Ms. Klein said officials are tracking court cases in individual states and bringing abortion-rights activists together to compare notes on which policies have succeeded. Still, activists are wary that court victories can be short-lived and do not take away the threat of a wider abortion ban the way legislation would. In recent months, administration officials have regularly highlighted the stories of women who have been denied emergency medical care when suffering pregnancy loss. Ms. Harris, who has made several trips and delivered speeches in defense of abortion rights, has frequently introduced medical care providers at her events to bolster the argument that the decision to end a pregnancy is a private one and not to be toyed with by local politicians. Image Vice President Kamala Harris, displaying a map showing abortion access, has emerged as a strong voice in the administration on abortion rights.Credit...Oliver Contreras for The New York Times Jill Biden, the first lady, has also been enlisted in the effort. On Tuesday, she hosted a group of women in the Blue Room of the White House and asked them to share their stories. One of the women, Dr. Austin Dennard, a physician in Texas, said she was forced to travel out of state for an abortion when her fetus was diagnosed with anencephaly, a condition that causes a baby to be born without parts of the brain and skull. Advertisement Continue reading the main story Another, a Houston-based Democratic campaign worker named Elizabeth Weller, had gone into labor at 18 weeks and was directed to go home until she developed an infection so severe that a hospital ethics panel allowed a doctor to end the pregnancy. “Joe is doing everything he can do,” the first lady told the group. Mini Timmaraju, the president of the abortion rights group NARAL Pro-Choice America, agreed that the Biden administration is “doing everything they can,” but she said the limitations are real. “We have to give them a pro-choice majority Congress,” she said. “That’s it. They’ve done everything they can up until that point, but without the support of Congress, they are limited and we are limited in what we can do.” Katie Rogers is a White House correspondent, covering life in the Biden administration, Washington culture and domestic policy. She joined The Times in 2014. @katierogers Zolan Kanno-Youngs is a White House correspondent covering a range of domestic and international issues in the Biden White House, including homeland security and extremism. He joined The Times in 2019 as the homeland security correspondent. @KannoYoungs A version of this article appears in print on June 25, 2023, Section A, Page 19 of the New York edition with the headline: White House Has Limited Tools in Abortion Battle. Order Reprints | Today’s Paper | Subscribe Read 2 Comments * Give this article * * * 2 * Read in app Advertisement Continue reading the main story COMMENTS 2 Biden Warns That Republicans Are Not Finished on AbortionSkip to Comments Share your thoughts. 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