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President Joe Biden said Friday his Justice Department is looking at ways to thwart enforcement of Texas’ bill banning abortions in the state after a fetal heartbeat is detected.
“The most pernicious thing about the Texas law is it creates a sort of vigilante system where people get rewards to go out to—anyway,” Biden said regarding a provision of the law that allows private individuals to sue those who help facilitate an abortion.
“I was told there are possibilities within the existing law to have the Justice Department look and see whether there are things that can be done that can limit the independent action of individuals in enforcing state law. I don’t know enough to give you an answer yet, I have asked that to be checked,” Biden, who is Catholic and once said he believed that life began at conception, told reporters.
