US President Joe Biden will sign an executive order on Wednesday aimed at making it easier for women seeking abortions to travel between states.

With the Supreme Court’s ruling, abortion is no longer automatically illegal in the US — but states can decide whether to allow it.

About half of the American states, especially in the South, are expected to completely ban this procedure, passing laws that prohibit abortion.

More specifically, one of the directives that Biden will issue is to allow states that have not banned abortion by law to apply special Medicaid measures [a package of specialized benefits for a subset of beneficiaries], which would help them to treat women who have traveled from state to state to have an abortion.

The order will also call on health care providers to comply with federal nondiscrimination laws and streamline the collection of key maternal health data at the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Details of the order were described by senior administration officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

Biden, who remains in isolation at the White House residence due to COVID-19, will sign the executive order as he helps launch a federal task force on access to reproductive care, which will be led by the vice president Kamala Harris, officials said.

The Supreme Court of the United States of America, on June 24, announced the decision, which ended the half-century-old right to abortion.