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# Biden to sign executive order on abortion access, legal backing, privacy
- URL: https://werd.io/biden-to-sign-executive-order-on-abortion-access-legal-backing/
- Published: 2022-07-08T16:06:04.000Z
- Updated: 2022-07-08T16:06:04.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: #Import 2025-06-13 09:23

“The executive order will direct the White House counsel and the U.S. attorney general to coordinate volunteer lawyers who will defend patients and medical providers facing state-based charges for “lawfully seeking or offering reproductive health care services throughout the country.” Those lawyers could, the White House suggested, defend people who are prosecuted for traveling from a state that has banned abortion to one where it remains legal.”

\[[Link](https://19thnews.org/2022/07/biden-executive-order-abortion/)\]