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Medicaid could help women travel to other states to obtain an abortion under an executive order signed by President Joe Biden this week.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services would invite states where abortion remains legal to apply for permission to use Medicaid funds to "provide reproductive health care to women who live in states where abortion is banned," White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre says.

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