The nominal ways President Biden could expand abortion rights

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When it comes to restoring abortion rights in red states after the fall of Roe v. Wade, Democrats don’t have many options other than to urge people who support those rights to vote in November. They have passed a bill in the House protecting abortion rights, but Senate Republicans have blocked the legislation.

And President Biden can’t do much on his own. Of codifying abortion rights into federal law, he said: “No executive action from the president can do that.”

But is there anything he can do around the edges? This month, the White House met with abortion rights and reproductive rights groups to brainstorm possible actions the executive branch can take.
Some possibilities that abortion rights supporters are floating include:

Make abortion medication easier to access: The federal government has already made it easier for women to get abortion pills by mail or prescribed by telemedicine. And the government doesn’t require that women take them only in clinical settings. But only certain providers can prescribe mifepristone, one of two necessary pills for a medical abortion. The federal government could change the guidelines to allow any medical provider to write a prescription for this medication and could expand the pharmacies where it can be picked up, said Elizabeth Nash, an abortion law expert with the Guttmacher Institute, a nonprofit research organization that supports abortion rights.

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