Trump marks the second anniversary of Roe v. Wade being overturned by trying to figure out the best way to brag about it
Monday marked two years since five U.S. Supreme Court justices were ousted Roe v. Wade and ushered in an era of declining access to abortion and reproductive health services. Former president Donald Trumpwho appointed three of the five justices who overturned the landmark case in 1973, is still boasting about the case’s ramifications. Dobbs decision.
Trump’s own messaging about how he will continue his anti-abortion legacy in a second term has been inconsistent in his growing effort to appeal to his evangelical base — while still keeping in mind remember 63% of Americans say abortion should generally be legal. or most cases. (That group of people, as the 2022 midterm elections and statewide down-ballot races have shown, also votes).
“We also achieved what the pro-life movement fought for for 49 years, and we took abortion out of the federal government and back into the states,” Trump told a crowd of evangelical voters at the Faith & Freedom Coalition in Washington. Washington, DC on Saturday. “That’s the way everyone and all the legal scholars always say it should be.”
The past 24 months have culminated in an America where nearly half of states restrict abortion earlier in pregnancy than the standards set by the agency. egg, and 14 states ban abortion in most cases.
The ripple effects of the decision by the nation’s highest court resulted in 171,000 patients seeking out-of-state abortions in 2023. Maternal health care deserts are growing increasing and getting worse. Women are asking their state’s supreme court to provide life-saving abortions. In states that restrict abortion, the number of pregnant women who die is increasing. Every week seems to bring new challenges in abortion access and new victories for the movement to maintain comprehensive reproductive health care.
With an election cycle in full swing and DobbsIn many ways, its focus is that the future of abortion access is uncertain.
At this point in the race, Trump is pushing to get states access to abortion — despite previously saying he would support a 15-week national ban. Although he did not follow this rhetoric when speaking about Arizona, Alabama and Florida, the former president recently told House Republicans that they should deliver the abortion message differently in a closed meeting. Trump wants House members to promote the party’s role in ending it fish eggs and talk about abortion as a state rights issue, not a federal one.
According to the Guttmacher Institute, in 2023, there will be approximately 642,700 medical abortions in the United States, accounting for approximately 63% of all abortions in the formal health care system. The number would likely be higher if the use of abortion pills outside of these channels were included. This is a clear increase compared to before Dobbswhile medical abortion accounted for about 53% of all abortions in 2020.
Anti-abortion activists and right-wing politicians are hoping to reduce access to abortion pills, which can be especially helpful for people experiencing domestic violence.
To do this, conservatives were working to enforce the 1873 anti-obscenity law known as the Comstock Act. The Act prohibits the sending of “Any article or thing designed, adapted or intended for abortion or for any indecent or immoral use.” This includes abortion pills, but it can also include the tools needed to perform both medical and procedural abortions. This strategy is spelled out in Project 2025—a guidebook for how the next Republican presidency might play out, managed by the Heritage Foundation.
“Therefore, the Department of Justice in the next Conservative Administration should announce its intention to enforce federal laws against suppliers and distributors of such drugs,” Project 2025 “Leadership Mandate” write.
On Thursday, Democrats in Congress introduced new legislation that would repeal part of the law that could be used to ban the mailing of abortion-related items. Bill introduced by Senator Tina Smith and co-sponsored by more than a dozen other Senate Democrats, was titled the “Stop Breeding Act.”
