US President-elect Joe Biden is gearing up to lift abortion restrictions and other family planning measures imposed by incumbent President Donald Trump. It is reported by NBC.
During his four years in office, Donald Trump has banned federal funding for organizations promoting abortion, banned family planning firms from redirecting people to abortion clinics, which significantly reduced the flow of their clients.
It also allowed employers to refuse to provide contraceptives to workers for religious or ethical reasons. In addition, he expanded the so-called Hyde Amendment, which limited insurance coverage for federal workers to cases of rape or incest: now not only recipients of free health insurance fell under it, but also many other groups dependent on the federal budget. It is noted that, first of all, Trump's measures harmed ethnic minorities and the poor.
With the arrival of Biden, all these decisions are likely to be reversed in the very first months of his term. As the newspaper notes, Biden has long supported the Hyde amendment because of his religious beliefs, but under pressure from criticism he abandoned this position and became a supporter of greater freedom in matters of abortion.
In November, Biden's views upset representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church: the clergy condemned his position on abortion and gender reassignment operations.
