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MEMO: Planning Your Coverage of the Third Dobbs Anniversary: Ending Roe Was Just the Beginning
TO: Interested Parties
FROM: Reproductive Freedom for All
RE: Planning Your Coverage of the Third Dobbs Anniversary: Ending Roe Was Just the Beginning
DATE: June 17, 2025
The daily churn of chaos from the Trump administration means that many people are not aware of Trump’s continued attacks on reproductive freedom. Since his inauguration in January, Trump and his administration have threatened abortion rights by targeting access to mifepristone, undermining emergency abortion care, stacking his cabinet and judiciary with anti-abortion extremists, and that’s not even all of it.
FACT: Trump and Republicans won’t stop at ending Roe—that’s why they’re advancing attacks through every branch of government to ban abortion nationwide.
CONGRESS: THE GOP’S ANTI-ABORTION BUDGET
- The GOP’s budget — celebrated by Trump as his “big, beautiful bill” — would defund Planned Parenthood, make $880 billion in cuts to Medicaid, and ultimately leave 13.7 million people without health care coverage by 2034. More than 70 million people are covered by Medicaid. The program funds over 40% of all births in the United States, and 75% of publicly funded family planning services.
- “Defunding” Planned Parenthood would amount to a backdoor abortion ban. It would shut down over 200 health centers and strip patients across the country of access to essential and affordable health care. No other provider would be able to fill the gap left by Planned Parenthood.
- The GOP’s budget could also block Affordable Care Act funds from going to state health plans that cover abortion services. There are 13 states — California, Colorado, Delaware, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Vermont and Washington state — with laws in the books that require insurers to cover abortion.
THE JUDICIARY: ANTI-ABORTION COURTS AT EVERY LEVEL
- Trump’s first judicial nominees have extensive anti-abortion records, and with 46 vacancies to fill, these appointments are an alarming sign of what’s to come. As we’ve seen in cases like Missouri v. FDA, which could effectively ban the abortion pill mifepristone nationwide, Trump-appointed judges and the legal groups that are loyal to him are taking their efforts to ban abortion to the courts—and with Trump-appointed judges at every level of the judiciary, they’re getting closer to their goal.
- In April, the Supreme Court heard arguments in Medina v. PPSAT and Kennedy v. Braidwood — two cases that would have major implications for reproductive freedom and health care access. Medina v. PPSAT could prevent patients who rely on Medicaid from choosing Planned Parenthood as their trusted provider to receive essential care, including access to birth control and cancer screenings. Kennedy v. Braidwood could invalidate the authority of the task force that makes decisions about which services must be covered under the ACA at no-cost, potentially impacting access to critical health care like PrEP and cancer screenings. Decisions in both cases are expected by the end of this month.
- Last year, Trump’s anti-abortion majority on the Supreme Court refused to uphold access to abortion care and kicked two abortion rights cases down to lower courts, one aimed at restricting access to the abortion pill mifepristone and another affirming pregnant people’s right to abortion care in emergencies. Joshua Divine, one of Trump’s judicial nominees for U.S. District Court in Missouri, took up the legal challenge against mifepristone in Missouri v. FDA.
EXECUTIVE EXTREMISM: THE ADMINISTRATION’S ATTACKS ON ABORTION
- From his day one anti-trans executive order that used language that could establish legal rights for fertilized eggs to freezing Title X funding to reproductive health care providers to gutting federal agencies that protect pregnant people and their families, Trump and his cabinet of extremists are using a coordinated strategy to attack reproductive freedom.
- Now, they’re working together to ban mifepristone, a safe and effective medication used in 63% of all abortion care.
- After a Project 2025 sponsor organization published a junk science “study” filled with anti-abortion lies about mifepristone, the Trump-appointed HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. asked Makary to consider new, nationwide restrictions on mifepristone. Makary has announced that the FDA will initiate a politically-motivated review of mifepristone—blatantly disregarding over 200 existing studies of science-backed evidence that prove its safety and efficacy.
- In coordination with J.D. Vance, Congressional Republicans are also attempting to misuse a 150-year-old law called the Comstock Act to block access to both abortion pills and medical equipment used for abortion care.
- In early June, Trump’s Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services rescinded the 2022 Biden-era guidance that affirmed federal law protects emergency abortion care. This action undermines protections for people who need abortion care in emergencies, breaking away from decades of precedent and putting pregnant people’s lives at risk. It also creates chaos and confusion for providers who still have a legal obligation to provide this care.
Meanwhile, Reproductive Freedom for All and our partners are fighting back at every turn.
👉PROTECTING MEDICAID, PROTECTING PLANNED PARENTHOOD: As Republicans gear up to slash Medicaid and defund Planned Parenthood, Reproductive Freedom for All hosted local events across the country, ran a $100,000 ad buy, placed op-eds, and hosted member meetings to urge Americans to urge their representatives to reject this disastrous budget bill.
👉MOBILIZING IN THE STATES: Our four million members are organizing to protect reproductive freedom in every state, including in key chapter states California, Arizona, Nevada, Georgia, and Michigan. In Arizona, we celebrated as courts struck down the 15-week abortion ban, upholding the protections of the 2024 constitutional amendment that we helped pass with partners last November. In Michigan, we celebrated a major victory when a judge struck down the state’s 24-hour waiting period for abortion, ruling that it violated the 2022 Reproductive Freedom for All constitutional amendment.
👉HOLDING REPUBLICANS ACCOUNTABLE: Since January, our members have taken over 30,000 actions to hold Republican lawmakers accountable for attacks on reproductive freedom. That includes 4,870 patch-through calls into legislative offices to oppose the GOP’s budget bill and Trump’s cabinet nominations.
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