U.S. President Joe Biden hosts a rally Friday to mark the approaching one-year anniversary of the Supreme Court decision overturning federal abortion protections, and will issue an executive order seeking to bolster access to contraception.
The president’s executive order aims to strengthen access to contraception, a growing concern for Democrats after some conservatives signalled a willingness to push beyond abortion into regulation of contraception. In 2017, nearly 65 per cent of girls and women age 15 to 49 in the U.S. used a form of contraception, some 47 million in total.
Some abortion opponents are calling for the abortion drug mifepristone to
