The move has no immediate legal force but will likely spark lawsuits that advocates hope will restore abortion rights.
The president reinstated a policy blocking U.S. aid to foreign organizations that use funds for abortion. He also overturned two Biden executive orders, contending they violated the law barring federal funding for abortion.
The president’s announcement on Friday was one of many sweeping executive moves he’s making in his final days in office.
Instead of striking a balance between conservative and progressive takes on religious freedom, President Joe Biden mostly toed the Democratic Party line.
If Biden really wanted to make the ERA the “law of the land,” he would have needed to direct the head of the National Archives to ignore the Department of Justice. But he didn't do that—or really anything for women's rights during his presidency.
President Trump pardoned 23 pro-life individuals convicted under Biden administration for demonstrating at abortion clinics. The pardons include elderly activists.
Trump pardoned nearly two dozen anti-abortion protesters who were charged with FACE Act violations, marking the latest in a series of clemency actions
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Biden’s record of promises kept, promises broken and compromises is roughly equally split between the three categories, according to PolitiFact.
Unlike that of his only Catholic predecessor in the job, John F. Kennedy, Biden’s Catholicism, White said, “was embedded both in his persona growing up, in the tragedies that have marked his life. It is a huge part of his persona, in a way that’s unlike Kennedy, who was quite private.”
President Joe Biden’s Friday announcement declaring the Equal Rights Amendment part of the U.S. Constitution is reviving long-simmering tensions in the abortion-rights movement about the ...
President Donald Trump issued executive orders late Friday reviving some of his first term’s anti-abortion policies, like restrictions on federal funding for family planning and some overseas health programs.