Biden says healthy women help US prosperity as he highlights White House initiative on their health
President Joe Biden says having healthy women is as important for the U.S. economy as it is for the women themselves
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden said Wednesday that he is “so proud” that a women's health research initiative he launched last year at his wife's urging has already invested nearly $1 billion because a healthy female population improves U.S. prosperity.
“That's a fact,” he said in closing remarks at the first White House Conference on Women's Health Research. “We haven't gotten that through to the other team yet," Biden said, referencing President-elect Donald Trump and his incoming administration.
Trump's three conservative nominees to the Supreme Court from his first term as president voted to overturn a woman's constitutional right to an abortion. Democrats campaigned on reproductive rights and women's health issues in this year's elections.
Karoline Leavitt, a spokesperson for Trump's transition team, said the president-elect will keep his promise to improve health in the U.S.
