President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice pledged Monday to protect abortion seekers in Texas in the wake of the Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision not to block state law prohibiting abortion after six weeks.
Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a statement that his agency will “protect those seeking to obtain or provide reproductive health services” under a federal law referred to as the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act.
“The department will provide support from federal law enforcement when an abortion clinic or reproductive health center is under attack,” he added. “We will not tolerate violence against those seeking to obtain or provide reproductive health services, physical obstruction or property damage in violation of the FACE Act.”
Garland also affirmed that DOJ prosecutors are working around the clock to find ways to take on the Texas the law, saying his agency will “protect the constitutional rights of women and other persons, including access to an abortion.”
Garland’s remarks come after White House chief of staff Ron Klain said the Biden administration would use “legal remedies to protect women who are seeking to exercise their constitutional rights” of receiving an abortion in Texas.
He told CNN on Sunday:
We have the best lawyers at the Justice Department looking for legal remedies to protect women who are seeking to exercise their constitutional rights. We have the team at HHS looking at what means we can do to try to get women the healthcare services they need in the face of this Texas law, and we have the gender policy counsel here at the White House, the first time a president’s ever had a policy counsel devoted to gender issues coordinating all this work to bring options forward for the president and the vice president.https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/09/06/justice-department-abortion-texas/Biden's "Whole of Government" approach.
Am thinking this may be good as we may get another crack at Roe v Wade before the SC if Garland tries this.
And he will have to plan to handle on multiple fronts as there are other states which will follow Texas.
Oh, and Garland is calling them 'Women'. I thought that was prohibited by the Feds and we are now all just 'persons'.
