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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)

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 from the Surgeon General of the United States on Dobbs v. Jackson Supreme Court Ruling (7/5/22)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)