The new date is Oct 4, 2022.
In a speech Tuesday, President Joe Biden acknowledged the effects of the Supreme Court's decision to allow states to ban abortion.
The president and first lady are at the White House.
Biden told Americans, "We're not going to step back from this."
The Department of Health and Human Services will allocate an additional $6 million in grant money in order to expand reproductive healthcare access.
The education secretary said Tuesday that the administration had set up new resources to remind schools of their obligation to protect their students from discrimination.
The University of Idaho faced scrutiny last week for telling employees that they couldn't promote or provide abortions, and that they wouldn't provide birth control access.
The best way to protect abortion access is for Congress to pass new legislation, which would require voters toelect a Democratic majority to Congress in November, and a Senate majority that will abolish the filibuster, according to Biden.
He warned against the 15-week abortion ban that was introduced in the Senate.
30,000,000. The White House said Tuesday that it was about how many women of reproductive age live in states that ban abortion.
The Supreme Court abolished the federal right to an abortion, gave states the power to ban the procedure, and made it easier for states to do so. The decision means the White House is largely hamstrung in how much it can do to fight the state-level bans, though Biden's new measures are the latest in a string of smaller steps his administration has taken in favor of abortion rights. Biden has issued two executive orders directing agencies to take action on abortion access and his administration has directed hospitals to provide abortions when medically necessary under federal law. During medical emergencies that aren't life threatening, Idaho's abortion ban was limited by his administration.
One measure the White House has taken to support abortion rights, an executive order allowing states to use federal Medicaid funds to help fund abortion access and out-of-state travel for the procedure, hasn't been successful yet. No state said it had taken advantage of the Medicaid offer. The Hyde Amendment, which bars federal funds from being used on abortion except for rape, incest and medical emergencies, is believed to be the reason for that.
It has been 100 days since the Wade decision.
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