The Secretary of Health and Human Services doesn't believe the Supreme Court's recent decision to roll back abortion rights in the U.S.
The Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee is holding a hearing in Washington, DC.
The federal government is working to make sure Americans have access to abortion care, while the Biden Administration continues to "heed the word" of the Supreme Court.
The five Supreme Court justices who voted to overturn the abortion law were unlikely to reverse their own decisions, so alternate routes would have to be taken.
He said that there are a lot of partners, public and private, who are looking into this.
Democrats are looking for ways to keep abortion legal in the wake of the Supreme Court's decision. The Senate has obstacles in the way of codifying abortion rights into federal law. President Joe Biden supports making an exception to the Senate's 60-vote rule so Senate Democrats can pass legislation codifying abortion rights, but moderate Democratic senators have said they don't. During a rally in New York on the day the abortion rights were overturned, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez raised the idea of creating abortion clinics on federal land in states that have rolled back abortion rights. Vice President Harris said the White House was not considering the option and that the Biden Administration was focused on expanding access to abortion medication.
In states like Texas, Idaho, Wisconsin, West Virginia, Oklahoma and Mississippi, Democratic politicians and abortion providers have filed lawsuits to challenge abortion bans.
The percentage of Americans who think abortion and women's rights should be included in the government's top five priorities has almost tripled in the past six months.
A poll shows that Americans support government action on abortion.
The Senate should break the cloture rule to codify abortion rights into law.
Here is where state lawsuits stand now after the Ohio Supreme Court decided to ban abortion.
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