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Weekend: President Biden vows to protect women seeking abortions

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President Biden vows to protect women seeking abortions

02/07/2022 GMT

BBC World Service - Weekend, President Biden vows to protect women seeking abortions

The US president has promised to use federal law to protect women needing an abortion

The US president has promised to use federal law to protect women needing an abortion.

President Biden has promised to act to protect women who need to cross state lines to get an abortion, in the wake of the US Supreme Court ruling ending a constitutional right to the practise.

Also, Russian missile strikes on Ukraine continue, even as EU membership is within reach.

Plus, the World Health Organization says sustained transmission of monkeypox could see it begin to move into high-risk groups - we speak to someone who contracted the virus.

Joining Julian Worricker to discuss these and other issues are Maya Goodfellow, a British academic and author specialising in race and immigration; and Anatol Lieven, director of the Eurasia Programme at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft in Washington DC.

(Image: US President Joe Biden speaks while meeting virtually with governors in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, D.C. Credit: Bloomberg via Getty Images)

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