Trump’s attorney general pick hints at making national abortion restrictions a priority
In a call last week, Blanche, who is serving as both acting attorney general and deputy attorney general and has previously served as Trump’s personal lawyer, suggested that under his leadership, the department would prioritize restrictions on medication abortion.
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Is Blanche Vow to Make Dobbs Permanent in ‘Every Single State’ Tied to Cornyn, Tillis Appeasement?
It appears that Blanche previewed for the anti-abortion activists changes ahead that would place restrictions on the online prescription and mailing of the abortion pill, mifepristone, often prescribed alongside misoprostol to carry out an abortion. He specifically suggested targeting states with shield laws that have allowed doctors to prescribe abortion drugs to patients out of state.
“If states have said, ‘We are going to protect the unborn and we’re going to protect every life from the moment of conception,’ we’re putting practices and policies in place so that other states and other organizations can’t attack that,” he said. “They can’t do things like they’re doing with mailing in mail-order drugs.”
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But it also comes after Cornyn and Tillis both signed off on a letter dated July 15 that urged Blanche to use the DOJ’s might to “stop the abortion industry’s unlawful and unsafe mail-order abortion drug practice.” The two sent the letter to Blanche ahead of his confirmation hearing, so it’s possible these promises to anti-abortion activists were made as part of some sort of last-ditch attempt to appease Cornyn and Tillis.
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