Reproductive Freedom for All Condemns Todd Blanche’s Vow to Use the DOJ to Advance “Permanent” Abortion Bans Nationwide - Reproductive Freedom for All®

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Reproductive Freedom for All Condemns Todd Blanche’s Vow to Use the DOJ to Advance “Permanent” Abortion Bans Nationwide

For Immediate Release: Tuesday, August 4, 2026
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Reproductive Freedom for All Condemns Todd Blanche’s Vow to Use the DOJ to Advance “Permanent” Abortion Bans Nationwide

Washington, DC — Damning new reporting dropped last night that reveals Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche is making promises to anti-abortion extremists behind the scenes. On a private call hosted by the White House Faith Office, he pledged that the Department of Justice would work with federal agencies and the White House to make the Dobbs decision “permanent in every single state”—essentially promising to enact a national abortion ban. Trump lied to voters when he campaigned on leaving abortion to the states—a backdoor ban has been Republicans’ goal all along.

During the call, Blanche told these extremists the administration is “putting practices and policies in place” to stop shipments of abortion medication into states with bans. He also singled out the shield laws in states that protect abortion access and allow providers to mail mifepristone to patients living in states with bans, promising “victory will be soon, and…it will be permanent.” These promises to extremists go much further than his public testimony to senators at his confirmation hearing last month and should alarm anyone concerned with the future of abortion access and reproductive freedom.

Todd Blanche’s anti-abortion extremism took center stage during today’s Senate Judiciary Committee meeting, where senators voted along party lines to advance Blanche’s nomination out of committee and to the full Senate. In light of this new reporting, Senator Blumenthal called Blanche a “zealot” who “wants to strip Americans of their right to choose and states of their right to govern.”

Reproductive Freedom for All President and CEO Mini Timmaraju released the following statement:

“Todd Blanche is making dangerous promises behind closed doors to weaponize the Justice Department to enact a national abortion ban. We must believe Blanche when he says he will come for our rights. Republicans are using every lever of government to attack reproductive freedom, and voters will make their voices heard this November to take our Congress back from these extremists.”

As the Acting Attorney General, Blanche has gutted the Department of Justice’s enforcement of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act, the federal law protecting patients and providers from threats, intimidation, violence, and obstruction at reproductive health clinics. Blanche’s DOJ also fired the career attorneys responsible for enforcing clinic protections and dismissed pending FACE Act cases. Just last week, the DOJ, under Blanche’s leadership, cut a 7-figure taxpayer-funded settlement to a convicted FACE Act violator.

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For over 55 years, Reproductive Freedom for All (formerly NARAL Pro-Choice America) has fought to protect and advance reproductive freedom at the federal and state levels—including access to abortion care, birth control, pregnancy and post-partum care, and paid family leave—for everybody. Reproductive Freedom for All is powered by its more than 4.5 million members from every state and congressional district in the country, representing the 8 in 10 Americans who support legal abortion.