President Joe Biden urged Congress to include access to abortion in federal law in a press conference on Friday.

Following the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade that morning, U.S. President Joe Biden urged Congress to include access to abortion in federal law in a press conference on Friday.

Biden referred to the court’s ruling as a “tragic blunder” since it sent the decision on abortion laws back to the states.

Additionally, he declared that he had ordered the Department of Health and Human Services to provide access to abortion medicines and that he would “do everything in my power” to safeguard women who were traveling to get abortions.

The country’s second Catholic president, Joe Biden, remarked on June 24 that it was “a sad day for the court and for the country.”

Biden described abortion as a “intensely personal decision,” and he later expressed regret that it had robbed women of their “freedom to choose” and “power to govern their own fate.” He asserted that because Roe was overturned, American women’s “life and health” are now “at peril.”

Despite the Catholic Church’s teaching that abortion is a “grave evil,” Biden has consistently stated his support for Roe v. Wade, the 1973 ruling that made the procedure lawful nationally.

Asserting that “most Americans of faith…found acceptable” the “basic right to privacy,” Biden said, “I believe Roe v. Wade was the correct decision.” Roe represented a “wide national consensus,” according to Biden.

Despite evidence to the contrary, a January Knights of Columbus/Marist Poll survey found that more than 60% of all Americans disapproved of Roe v. Wade’s main conclusion.

Biden stated, “The court has done what it has never done before, expressly take away a constitutional privilege that is so essential to so many Americans and has already been acknowledged.

This decision is the culmination of a concerted campaign over decades to disrupt the balance of our law. The court’s ruling will have immediate and noticeable repercussions.

In my opinion, the Supreme Court made a catastrophic miscalculation and an extremist ideology came to fruition.

According to Biden, “executive action can’t achieve that” and that only Congress can “protect a women’s right to choose” is by making Roe federal law once again. He called for the election of lawmakers who support abortion in the upcoming midterm elections.

According to Biden, he plans to help women from pro-life states who wish to travel to pro-abortion ones. “I will do everything in my power to fight that deeply un-American attack,” Biden said, “if any state or local official, high or low, tries to interfere with a woman’s exercising her fundamental right to travel.”

The first medicine in the medical abortion protocol, mifepristone, was supposed to be “accessible to the fullest degree practicable,” according to the president, who added that he had instructed the Department of Health and Human Services to “take efforts” to assure this.

Supporters of abortion have cited medical abortions as a type of workaround or backup plan for women to access abortion as states restrict abortion, despite the fact that these procedures have been linked to a number of health risks.

The most current Abortion Surveillance data from the US Centers for Disease Control shows that 42.3 percent of abortions in 2019 were “early medical abortions.”

Biden urged those who were angered by the choice to refrain from violence. This occurs in response to a number of recent instances of vandalism against pro-life pregnancy centers across the nation, which the White House strongly condemned through a spokeswoman on June 15.

“I urge everyone, regardless of how strongly they disagree with the decision, to keep all demonstrations nonviolent. Peaceful. Peaceful. Peaceful. No provoking. It is never okay to use violence.

Speech is not intimidation or threats. Regardless of your justification, we must oppose violence in all its forms, Biden stated on Friday.

Despite the fact that the United States was previously one of only a small number of nations — including China and North Korea — that permitted elective abortions after 20 weeks of gestation, Biden claimed in his conclusion that the decision to overturn Roe had “made the United States an outlier among developed nations in the world.”

47 of the 50 European nations, independent states, and regions that were examined in 2014 either forbade elective abortion or restricted it to 15 weeks or earlier.