Biden Finally Did Something About Abortion! Or Did He?
Jess and Imani break down the executive order President Biden issued two weeks after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
President Joe Biden took some baby steps—finally—to protect abortion in the country. But it’s just not enough to get folks abortion care today.
In a new episode of Boom! Lawyered, co-hosts Jessica Mason Pieklo and Imani Gandy dig into Biden’s broad-strokes executive order, which is delivers big on aspirations and little on actual direction and action points.
As Jess says in the episode: “Waiting to respond, issuing a response that so clearly doesn’t meet the moment—we’re sending signals that what the Supreme Court is doing is OK. Like the Supreme Court is functionally exercising a judicial coup in this country. It’s just doing what it wants because it can. The law is no longer a barrier to anything.”
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