Well, it’s happening. Donald Trump and his cronies are already gutting reproductive freedom including dismantling the White House Gender Policy Council, taking down reproductiverights.gov, weaving anti-abortion slogans into policy (in an executive order that seeks to attack trans people, no less), and pardoning anti-abortion extremists who blockaded clinic entrances.
Did we expect less? No.
Are we giving up? Hell no.
We expect Trump and his circle of anti-abortion extremists to chip away at our reproductive rights until they effectively create a “backdoor” nationwide ban on abortion.
But, here’s the thing: because abortion is so widely supported, Republicans, Trump, and their extremist allies may never say that they’re “banning abortion.”
And the hard truth is, Trump doesn’t need Congress to pass a single law that bans abortion because he has so many other ways to do it.
Wait—what? I thought Trump said he's against a national abortion ban.
Friend, ignore what he says and look at what he does. Restricting abortion is a priority for Republicans and Trump.
Yes—even though 8 in 10 Americans support abortion.
1. Restricting medication abortion aka the abortion pill
Anti-abortion extremists have been trying to block mifepristone—aka the abortion pill—which is safer than Tylenol, is also used for miscarriage care, and is used in 63% of abortion care nationwide.
Extremists are trying to force the FDA to revoke its approval of mifepristone, or to create restrictions on it that would significantly reduce access to this safe and effective medication.
Abortion bans have led to devastating harm and tragic, preventable deaths. The Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) is a federal law that gives people the right to receive life-saving care. It’s always covered emergency abortion care—but now, anti-abortion extremists are trying to take that away. This would lead to even more devastating horror stories of people experiencing harm because they are denied proper medical care.
We should not have to wonder whether our doctors are allowed to give us the care we need. Patients and doctors should not have to fear criminal charges for seeking or providing abortion care.
We trust people to make decisions about their own body, life, and future.
3. Blocking medication abortion and medical equipment from the mail
Trump could make it so people cannot send or receive medications and medical equipment used for abortion care in the mail—effectively banning abortion nationwide. The idea is to willfully misuse the 1873 Comstock Act which bans anything "immoral" from the mail. And if doctors don't have the medicine or equipment they need to provide abortion care, that’s a ban.
Moves by Trump and his allies to allow states to cherry-pick which health providers qualify for Medicaid—an underhanded way of letting states block patients from receiving vital reproductive care.
What can you do?
Rejecting Mehmet Oz’s nomination with us is one way to take action right now.
6. Writing anti-abortion lies and myths into policy
Weaving anti-abortion rhetoric and falsehoods into federal health policy is part of the Project 2025 playbook because it paves the way for criminalizing abortion, and could also ban stem cell research, assisted reproductive technology like IVF, and common forms of birth control. Trump already did just that after signing an executive order that attacks trans people and also contains language defining life as beginning at conception.
Removals of the word “abortion” from federal rules, agency regulations, contracts, grants, regulations, and legislation. The government website that offered reproductive health information, reproductiverights.gov, was taken down on Trump’s first week in office.
Additions of inflammatory, anti-abortion wording that restores broad religious and moral exceptions to block abortion care, contraception, IVF, and more.
What can you do?
We’re in a new phase of our fight for reproductive freedom and the stakes have never been higher. Our movement is ready to act—but we need you to act with us.
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