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Roe v. Wade / Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization : SCOTUS Decision and the Federal Response: Agencies

Compilation of select federal responses to the SCOTUS decision overturning Roe v. Wade

HHS Secretary Becerra's Statement on Supreme Court Ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization (6/24/22)

Statement from the Surgeon General of the United States on Dobbs v. Jackson Supreme Court Ruling (6/24/22)

Know Your Rights: Reproductive Health Care (6/25/22)

Secretaries Becerra, Walsh and Yellen Underscore Contraceptive Coverage Requirements for Private Insurance (6/27/22)

Remarks by Secretary Xavier Becerra at the Press Conference in Response to President Biden's Directive following Overturning of Roe v. Wade (6/28/22)

HHS Issues Guidance to Protect Patient Privacy in Wake of Supreme Court Decision on Roe (6/29/22)

HHS Announces New Grants to Bolster Family Planner Provider Training (6/30/22)

Statement by HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra on President Biden’s Executive Order to Protect Access to Reproductive Health Care (7/8/22)

Following President Biden’s Executive Order to Protect Access to Reproductive Health Care, HHS Announces Guidance to Clarify that Emergency Medical Care Includes Abortion Services (7/11/22)

HHS Issues Guidance to the Nation’s Retail Pharmacies Clarifying Their Obligations to Ensure Access to Comprehensive Reproductive Health Care Services (7/13/22)

HHS Announces Proposed Rule to Strengthen Nondiscrimination in Health Care (7/25/22)

HHS, DOL, and Treasury Issue Guidance Regarding Birth Control Coverage (7/28/22)

HHS Takes Action to Strengthen Access to Reproductive Health Care, Including Abortion Care (8/26/22)

Statement by HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra on House Republicans Introducing Legislation to Rip Away Women’s Access to Contraception and Abortion Medication (9/14/22)

HHS Announces Grant Funding for Reproductive Health and Family Planning Services Research (10/4/22)

Field Guidance #21 – Compliance with Garza Requirements and Procedures for Unaccompanied Children Needing Reproductive Healthcare (11/10/22)

FDA issues memo about new package labeling for Plan B, to clarify that taking the emergency contraception pills is not the same as an abortion (12/23/22)

HHS Issues New Strengthened Conscience and Religious Nondiscrimination Proposed Rule (12/29/22)

FDA issues new rule that mifepristone ("abortion pills") can be provided by pharmacies; removes "the requirement that mifepristone be dispensed only in certain health care settings, specifically clinics, medical offices, and hospitals (referred to as the “in-person dispensing requirement”)" (1/3/23)

HHS Releases Report Detailing Biden-Harris Administration Efforts to Protect Reproductive Health Care Since Dobbs (1/19/23)

Biden-Harris Administration Proposes New Rules to Expand Access to Birth Control Coverage Under the Affordable Care Act (1/30/23)

HHS Proposes Measures to Bolster Patient-Provider Confidentiality Around Reproductive Health Care (4/12/23)

HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra Issues Statement on Supreme Court Issuing Stay in Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. FDA (4/21/23)

HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra Statement on EMTALA Enforcement (5/1/23)

HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra Issues Statement on Fifth Circuit Mifepristone Ruling (8/16/23)

HHS Issues New Nondiscrimination Final Rule to Protect Conscience Rights (1/9/24)

Statement from Secretary Becerra on the Anniversary of the Roe v. Wade Decision (1/22/24)

The Biden-Harris Administration Issues New Rule to Support Reproductive Health Care Privacy Under HIPAA (4/22/24)

Biden-Harris Administration Launches New Option to Report Potential Violations of Federal Law and Continue to Promote Patient Access to Stabilizing Emergency Care (5/1/24)

HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra Statement on Supreme Court Decision in Food and Drug Administration v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine (6/13/24)

Secretary Becerra to Highlight Biden-Harris Administration Efforts to Protect and Expand Access to Reproductive Health Care in National Reproductive Health for All Tour (6/17/24, via Internet Archive)

Statement by the Secretary of Health and Human Services on the Second Anniversary of Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization (6/24/24)

HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra Statement on Supreme Court Decision in Moyle v. United States (6/27/24)

Biden-Harris Administration Reaffirms Commitment to EMTALA Enforcement (7/2/24)

Biden-Harris Administration Proposes Expanding Coverage of Birth Control and Other Preventive Services (10/21/24)

reproductiverights.gov taken offline (1/20/25; link goes to Internet Archive captures)

Statement from Dr. Dorothy Fink, Acting Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (1/27/25)

Attorney General Merrick B. Garland Statement on Supreme Court Ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization (6/24/22)

Justice Department Announces Reproductive Rights Task Force (7/12/22)

Readout of Justice Department Leadership Meeting with Reproductive and Civil Rights Organizations (7/26/22)

Attorney General Merrick B. Garland Delivers Remarks at White House Convening of Lawyers in Defense of Reproductive Rights (7/29/22)

Associate Attorney General Vanita Gupta Delivers Remarks at White House Convening of Lawyers in Defense of Reproductive Rights (7/29/22)

Justice Department Sues Idaho to Protect Reproductive Rights (8/2/22)

Attorney General Merrick Garland Delivers Remarks for the Reproductive Rights Taskforce (8/3/22)

Statement from Attorney General Merrick B. Garland Regarding Reproductive Rights (8/24/22; see also, Idaho court decision and related 8/23/22 Texas court order)

Associate Attorney General Vanita Gupta Delivers Remarks at the UNC School of Law (9/14/22)

Office of Legal Counsel opinion: Intergovernmental Immunity for the Department of Veterans Affairs and Its Employees When Providing Certain Abortion Services (9/21/22)

Office of Legal Counsel opinion: Application of the Hyde Amendment to the Provision of Transportation for Women Seeking Abortions (9/27/22)

Office of Legal Counsel opinion: Authority of the Department of Defense to Use Appropriations for Travel by Service Members and Dependents to Obtain Abortions (10/3/22)

Readout of Reproductive Rights Task Force Meeting (12/19/22)

Office of Legal Counsel opinion: Application of the Comstock Act to the Mailing of Prescription Drugs That Can Be Used for Abortions (12/23/22)

Attorney General Merrick B. Garland and Associate Attorney General Vanita Gupta Met With the Reproductive Rights Task Force on the Anniversary of Roe v. Wade (1/23/23)

Revamped Reproductive Rights website rolled out (3/2/23)

Statement from Attorney General Merrick B. Garland (4/7/23)

Attorney General Merrick B. Garland Delivers Remarks at the Interagency Task Force on Reproductive Healthcare Access (4/12/23)

Statement from Attorney General Merrick B. Garland on Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. FDA Appeals Decision (4/13/23)

Fact Sheet: Justice Department Efforts to Protect Reproductive Rights, Health and Justice (6/22/23)

Records Concerning Crimes Against Pro-Life Organizations [FOIA] (10/12/23)

Justice Department Files Statement of Interest in Case on Right to Travel to Access Legal Abortions (11/9/23)

Readout of Reproductive Rights Task Force Meeting

Associate Attorney General Vanita Gupta Statement on Supreme Court’s Order Granting Certiorari to Review the Fifth Circuit Decision in Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine (12/13/23)

Attorney General Merrick B. Garland Statement on the Supreme Court’s Decision in FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine (6/13/24)

Attorney General Merrick B. Garland Statement on the Supreme Court’s Order in Moyle v. United States (6/27/24)

Reproductive Rights Task Force Since May 2, 2022, Interim Report (February 14,2023 - May 17, 2023) (via DOJ FOIA, 1/29/25)

Reproductive Rights website archived (3/17/25)

Statement by Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III on the Supreme Court's Ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization (6/24/22)

Memorandum: Ensuring Access to Essential Women's Health Care Services for Service Members, Dependents, Beneficiaries, and Department of Defense Civilian Employees (6/28/22)

Women's Health Care in DOD Unchanged by Supreme Court Decision (7/29/22)

After Dobbs Decision, DOD Provides Q&A Resource (8/12/22)

DOD Announces Efforts to Ensure Access to Reproductive Health Care (10/20/22)

DoD Releases Policies to Ensure Access to Non-Covered Reproductive Health Care (2/16/23)

U.S. Department of Education Releases New Resource on Discrimination Based on Pregnancy and Related Conditions (10/4/22)

Rosenworcel Probes Mobile Carriers on Data Privacy Practices (7/19/22)

Location, health, and other sensitive information: FTC committed to fully enforcing the law against illegal use and sharing of highly sensitive data (7/11/22)

FTC Sues Kochava for Selling Data that Tracks People at Reproductive Health Clinics, Places of Worship, and Other Sensitive Locations (8/29/22)

PrivacyCon 2024 - Health Panel included co-author of paper,  “I Deleted It After the Overturn of Roe v. Wade”: Understanding Women’s Privacy Concerns Toward Period-Tracking Apps in the Post Roe v. Wade Era (3/6/24)

VA will offer abortion counseling and — in certain cases — abortions to pregnant Veterans and VA beneficiaries (9/2/22)

Department of Agriculture

Statement from Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack on Supreme Court Ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization (6/24/22)

Department of Commerce

Secretary Raimondo Statement on Supreme Court Decision to Overturn Roe v. Wade (6/24/22)

Department of Labor

Statement by Secretary Walsh on US Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade (6/24/22)

Statement by Women’s Bureau Director Wendy Chun-Hoon on the US Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade (6/24/22)

Department of State

Today’s Supreme Court Decision (6/24/22)

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

EEOC Issues Final Regulation on Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (4/15/24)

Food and Drug Administration

Information about Mifepristone for Medical Termination of Pregnancy Through Ten Weeks Gestation (3/23/23)

Small Business Administration

Statement by SBA Administrator Guzman on the U.S. Supreme Court Decision on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization (6/26/22)

UN Ambassador

Statement by Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield on Supreme Court Ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization (6/24/22)