President Joe Biden blasted the Supreme Court justices who rejected an effort by abortion-rights advocates to stop Texas’ restrictive abortion law from taking effect.
The decision “is an unprecedented assault on a woman’s constitutional rights under Roe v. Wade, which has been the law of the land for almost fifty years,” Biden said in a searing statement.
The majority in the 5-4 ruling included all three of former President Donald Trump’s appointees.
Biden also directed White House legal and policy officials to respond to the decision by looking into ways for federal agencies to “ensure that women in Texas have access to safe and legal abortions as protected by [Roe v. Wade].”