As abortion crisis engulfs red states, advocates press White House for a bolder plan

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

48% : The provisions bar the federal government from covering abortion with those three exceptions for Medicaid patients, the federal prison system, foreign aid, military health care and the federal employees health benefit program.
48% : Abolfazli from the National Women's Law Center said she'd like to see coordination across various departments of the federal government to protect a patient's ability to travel to access abortion and to get access to medication abortion throughout the country.
44% : Much of what the federal government could do on abortion access is restricted by the so-called Hyde amendment, a policy rider in the annual government funding bills that bars the federal government from spending money on abortion, with limited exceptions for rape, incest or the life of the patient.
41% : A public health emergency, Hopkins said, would allow the federal government to partner with states and hospitals where abortion remains legal or less restricted to address the uptick in patients they are likely to see as an increasing number of states implement bans or significant restrictions.
38% :"It would give HHS the power to address what are the well-known adverse health consequences of banning abortion," Northup said earlier this week.
36% :Public health emergencyNancy Northup, president and chief executive of the Center for Reproductive Rights, has urged the White House to declare a public health emergency for abortion under the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act, saying it "could have an enormous impact."
36% : The federal government, she added, would then be able to supersede "state laws that have bans on abortion with respect to medication abortion, because these bans are frustrating the administration of a drug that mitigates this public health emergency."
35% :One proposal from some abortion rights advocates that Abolfazli isn't so sure about would set up clinics on federal lands or in federal buildings in states where abortion is now banned or severely restricted.
32% : "In states where abortion is now illegal, women and providers who are not federal employees ... could be potentially be prosecuted," Jean-Pierre said.
30% : But advocates say Biden could declare a public health emergency, require the federal government pay for patients' travel to out-of-state clinics and study the creation of federal enclaves for abortion in deeply Republican states.
20% :Committee Chair Rosa DeLauro, a Connecticut Democrat, sharply disagreed, saying the Supreme Court's decision to end a nationwide right to abortion makes it more important than ever that Congress get rid of the Hyde amendment.

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