Last month, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) launched the "Reproductive Healthcare Access Task Force." A Jan 21 press release stated that the task force "is composed of senior-level HHS officials who have been designated by their respective agencies to identify and coordinate activities across the Department to protect and bolster access to essential sexual and reproductive health care."
The press release listed several actions that this task force might consider to promote abortion access. One example involved partnering with other organizations to support policies that promote abortion globally, while another suggested that the task force could initiate a PR campaign to counter pro-life arguments that abortion is not health care.
This task force comes as a response to the upcoming challenge to Roe v. Wade and the increasing number of pro-life state laws. The HHS argued in its press release that pro-life laws lead to an increase in infant mortality, but this argument fails to account for the glaring fact that every "successful" abortion ends the life of a child.