HHS was asked to seek an ‘aggressive strategy’ on abortion by Biden, Becerra says

When asked by Todd on “Meet the Press” about clinics operating on federal land, Becerra said, “The difficulty is that simply because it’s an idea, doesn’t mean it can go out into practice. And so what we want to make sure is we can put things out into practice.”

He continued by saying that there are people in need of abortion services now, “so we’re going to do what we can to give people something as quickly as we can, even if it may not be everything they’d like.”

Last week, HHS launched a website to help people find contraceptives and access to abortion services.

Todd also asked Becerra about the concerns that some congressional Democrats have that the party isn’t fighting hard enough on abortion access.

“I tell them, ‘Give us some good ideas,’ Becerra said. “And I also would ask them to please pass a law. They have it in their power, if they can find the votes to actually codify the Roe decision, which is what we need more than anything else.”

He reiterated that the administration will do as much as they can, “but when you are stripped of a right, as the Supreme Court has just done to every woman of childbearing age, it is tough to overcome. It took 50 years for us to get as far as we did. Now we have to figure out how to do this. It will not be easy.”