Watch live: President Biden addresses reproductive health care

President Joe Biden will direct the federal government on Friday to take steps to protect access to abortion and other reproductive services following the recent Supreme Court’s decision overturning Roe v. Wade.

Biden will sign an executive order instructing the Department of Health and Human Services to protect and expand access to abortion care, including access to medication approved by the Food and Drug Administration as safe and effective for over 20 years.

The order tasks the department with taking additional steps to expand access to reproductive health services, including family planning services and providers, emergency contraception and long-acting reversible contraception like intrauterine devices, according to a fact sheet distributed by the White House.

The administration also is promising to increase outreach and public education on access to reproductive health care serves, including abortion, and to take steps to ensure the safety of patients and providers, including mobile clinics sent to borders to provide care for out-of-state patients.

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