President Joe Biden has said he is looking into declaring a public health emergency over abortion, nearly a month after the Supreme Court majority voted to overturn Roe v. Wade.
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Experts told ABC News it is unclear how the Biden administration plans on using a public health emergency or whether they would be able to use it to increase access to abortion or abortion services.Justin Sullivan/Getty Images, FILE In a statement to ABC News, the White House said the Biden-Harris administration will never stop fighting to protect access to abortion care.
"We have been using all those dollars already for COVID and those are the same pots of money that one would use, should a hurricane or tornado hit a community and you had to respond for other health emergencies," Benjamin said. "The CDC and other public health agencies have already been battered and bruised from the COVID 19 pandemic and this would utterly make them political bodies and public trust in the CDC would go even lower," Gostin added.
There are three or four different statutes that Biden could use to declare a public health emergency, all of which would be "on very vulnerable legal ground," Gostin said.
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