• zigmus64@lemmy.world
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    17 days ago

    How is this an emergency? The dealing with emergencies here (personal interpretation) would be for national security emergencies or natural disasters to allocate resources. An individual citizen’s lack of access to a medical procedure, while tragic, fails to rise to that level.

    The key bit you quoted has to do with deciding how and to what degree legislation will be enforced. Also remember that this is at the federal level, not the state level. So he can issue an executive order to keep the FBI and other federal law enforcement agencies from enforcing any anti-IVF laws, similar to how they’ve directed the DEA to not pursue marijuana charges in states where recreational use has been legalized. hHe cannot simply write a law into existence, which is what would be needed for what you’re asking.

    https://guides.library.umass.edu/govinfo/exec/orders#:~:text=An executive order is not,declared unconstitutional by the court).

    Unfortunately, this is something only Congress can fix, and I’m not holding my breath.