The move has no immediate legal force but will likely spark lawsuits that advocates hope will restore abortion rights.
The president reinstated a policy blocking U.S. aid to foreign organizations that use funds for abortion. He also overturned two Biden executive orders, contending they violated the law barring federal funding for abortion.
If Biden really wanted to make the ERA the “law of the land,” he would have needed to direct the head of the National Archives to ignore the Department of Justice. But he didn't do that—or really anything for women's rights during his presidency.
The president’s announcement on Friday was one of many sweeping executive moves he’s making in his final days in office.
President Trump pardoned 23 pro-life individuals convicted under Biden administration for demonstrating at abortion clinics. The pardons include elderly activists.
As President Joe Biden gets ready to leave office, we consider his accomplishments, failures, and what his legacy will be.
President Joe Biden's executive opinion on the Equal Rights Amendment comes in the final days of his presidency. Some local advocates wish he and Democrats had acted sooner.
Trump pardoned nearly two dozen anti-abortion protesters who were charged with FACE Act violations, marking the latest in a series of clemency actions
Unlike that of his only Catholic predecessor in the job, John F. Kennedy, Biden’s Catholicism, White said, “was embedded both in his persona growing up, in the tragedies that have marked his life. It is a huge part of his persona, in a way that’s unlike Kennedy, who was quite private.”
Columbus filed motions to join two lawsuits as defendants alongside the Department of Health and Human Services.
President Donald Trump will soon issue pardons for pro-life activists convicted under the FACE Act for demonstrating near abortion clinics on Thursday.
Biden’s domestic policy adviser says Trump avoided pledges to overhaul the Affordable Care Act and other health programs — but changes are coming anyway.