before i let you go, i have to ask about the supreme court declining to block a texas law, which bans all abortion after six weeks of pregnancy, and effectively deputizes private citizens to enforce it. i know the president is directing federal agencies to look into ways to address this, but this is the law of the land right now. there are women who are scared and don t know what to do in texas. you know the law better than most people i know in this country. is the reality that there isn t a whole lot the administration can do right now to change things in texas? dana, i hope that s not the reality. 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 eve
six weeks of pregnancy, and effectively deputizes private citizens to enforce it. i know the president is directing federal agencies to look into ways to address this, but this is the law of the land right now. there are women who are scared and don t know what to do in texas. you know the law better than most people i know in this country. is the reality that there isn t a whole lot the administration can do right now to change things in texas? dana, i hope that s not the reality. 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
senate filibuster that comes into play there. there s another aspect about what regulatory agencies could potentially do including some abortion rights groups saying that they are hoping that there could be something through telemedicine access, for instance, to the abortion pill. but this is a short form thing where the president has called on his gender policy counsel council to come up with solutions but nothing immediate. we ll talk about a path through congress in a second. let s talk about the president s plans on 9/11, which is just a week from now. we re learning news about where he plans to visit. reporter: we are learning news. it looks very similar actually to the path that former president obama took on the tenth anniversary which is to visit all three sites of impact, first the world trade center in new york, here at the pentagon in washington, and also the shanksville, pennsylvania, site. this comes two weeks after the full withdrawal from
of decisions made by a woman it actually incentivizes them to do so with the prospect of a $10,000 bounty if they win their case. for the majority of the supreme court to do this without a hearing, without the benefit of an opinion from a court below, and without due consideration of the issues, insults the rule of law and the rights of all americans to seek redress from our courts. the impact of last night s decision will be immediate and it requires an immediate response. the president says, quote, i am directing my gender policy counsel and the white house counsel s office to launch a whole of government effort to respond to this decision, looking specifically to the department of health and human services and to the department of justice to see what steps the federal government can take to ensure that women in texas have access to safe and legal abortions as protected by roe and what legal tools we have to insulate women and providers from the impact of texas bizarre scheme of out
rural or urban. this destruction is everywhere, and it s a matter of life and death, and we re all in this together. president biden is vowing to safeguard access to abortion rights in texas after the supreme court refused to block the state s near total ban on the procedure. in a statement biden called it unconstitutional chaos, and he said he s directing the white house counsel and his gender policy counsel to work with health and human services and the justice department to launch what they re calling a whole of government response to the court s decision. biden said the goal is to find, quote, what legal tools we have to insulate women and providers from the impact of texas s bizarre scheme of outsourced enforcement, adding complete strangers will now be empowered to inject themselves in the most private and personal health decisions faced by women. the law bans abortions after six weeks of pregnancy and allows anyone to bring a court case