President Joe Biden is committed to taking action to protect women's reproductive rights and freedoms.

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A statement released by the White House considered that the

Indiana legislature took a devastating step by becoming the first US territory to pass an abortion ban.

The statement called it another sweeping move by Republican lawmakers to take away women's reproductive rights and freedoms, and put decisions about personal health care in the hands of politicians rather than pregnant women and their doctors. .

Yesterday's vote, instituting a near-total ban on abortion in Indiana, should be a signal to Americans across the country to make their voices heard, the text said.

She added that Congress must also act immediately to pass a law that restores protections, the only way to guarantee women's right to choose nationally.

Until then, he said, President Joe Biden is committed to taking action to protect women's reproductive rights and freedoms, and access to care provided to them under federal law.

The new regulation on the voluntary interruption of pregnancy in Indiana, which takes effect on September 15, will only allow such procedures in cases of rape and incest, before 10 weeks after fertilization, if a fetus is diagnosed with a lethal anomaly, or in case the life and physical health of the pregnant woman is in danger.

Its approval came after the General Assembly of the States showed its consent, as the Senate voted in favor of the ban with a balance of 28 to 19, and the same was previously done by the House with 62 to 38.

Indiana was one of the first Republican-led state legislatures to debate stricter abortion laws following the Supreme Court's ruling last June that struck down constitutional protections for the procedure.

(With information from Prensa Latina)