Group of Senate Democrats call on Biden to create Office of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Wellbeing

Seven Senate Democrats are asking President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris to establish a White House office devoted to reproductive health that would create a federal policy home positioned to address the issue across the administration.

In a letter sent Tuesday, Democratic Sens. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, Cory Booker of New Jersey, Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, Ed Markey of Massachusetts, Jeff Merkley of Oregon, Tammy Duckworth of Illinois and Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut called on the administration to establish an Office of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Wellbeing within the White House's Domestic Policy Council. Citing the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, "the comprehensive scope of reproductive health care must be an early priority for the Biden administration," the senators wrote, asserting that "securing true reproductive justice is beyond the scope of any one existing executive department."