US president expands government research into women’s health issues

President Joe Biden signed an executive order on 18 March that broadly expands the US federal government’s research into women’s health conditions such as midlife issues including menopause, arthritis, and heart disease, as well as issues affecting women in the US military.1Women’s health issues will be important in the coming November election between Biden and the past president Donald Trump. More women supported Biden than Trump in the 2020 election. Trump is known for remarks denigrating women and speaks proudly of appointing Supreme Court justices who overturned the right to abortion in 2022.2Biden, in his state of the union speech on 7 March, vowed to protect reproductive rights and defended the right of women to end a non-viable pregnancy by abortion. He issued his executive order in the White House with his wife, Jill, and Vice President Kamala Harris beside him. Harris has previously visited an abortion clinic in Minnesota…
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