President Biden condemned the Supreme Court’s decision to allow Texas’ ban on most abortions to remain in place as “an unprecedented assault on a woman’s constitutional rights,” pledging to launch a “whole-of-government” effort to protect access to safe and legal abortion in the state.
Why it matters: The ban, which took effect Wednesday, is the most restrictive abortion law to be enforced since the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision legalized abortion nationwide in 1973.
