WASHINGTON (Michigan News Source) – President Joe Biden is expected to snub last month’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling which struck down Roe v. Wade and issue an executive order on Friday to “protect access to reproductive services” which include abortion.

Biden is expected to formalize instructions to the Departments of Justice and Health and Human Services so women can access federally approved abortion medication or travel across state lines to access clinical abortion services.

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Currently, there is no law on the books that prohibits women from traveling state-to-state.

On Thursday, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announced she’d sent a letter to Washington demanding that the Department of Health and Human Services, along with the Department of Homeland Security, issue “clarity” about protections for Michiganders who want to travel to Canada to seek abortion services.

Whitmer has described Biden as her “close friend,” although recently she’s remained mum about whether the president should run again in 2024.

As Biden steps around the U.S. Supreme Court decision, a move like this it is not unfamiliar to his “good friend” governor in Michigan. In October 2020, the Michigan Supreme Court issued a one-two punch to the Whitmer administration, saying she could not extend her pandemic powers indefinitely under a 1945 and 1976 law.

Three days later, Whitmer cited an obscure 1918 Spanish flu law and reinstituted mask measures. The following month, she shut down the state’s businesses and schools again, claiming it would slow another spread of COVID-19. She kept schools closed for three weeks, and did not fully reopen restaurants and bars until July 2021.

 

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