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President Joe Biden said Friday that federal legislation offered the fastest route to restoring US abortion rights and urged voters to elect pro-choice legislators in upcoming elections in defiance of an “out of control” Supreme Court. Under pressure to take a tougher line on defending women’s reproductive rights, Biden signed an executive order aimed at shoring up access to abortion after what he described as the court’s “terrible, extreme” decision to remove the constitutional right to terminate a pregnancy. But the president, whose room for manoeuvre on the issue is limited, said the most e…