"Democratic lawmakers are pressing President Joe Biden to use federal lands to ensure access to abortion services after the Supreme Court overturned long-standing abortion precedent.

Both Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D) and New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D) separately demanded this weekend that the Biden administration use “federal lands” to ensure abortion access in areas where services have been or will soon be barred.

The Supreme Court on Friday voted to strike down the seminal 1973 ruling Roe v. Wade, which could result in abortion bans in more than half of the nation’s states. Among those are several with significant public lands acreage, including Idaho, Wyoming and Utah (Greenwire, June 24)."

Robin Bravender and Jennifer Yachnin report for E&E News June 27, 2022. [2]