Where the Future of Abortion Access Lies Trump, for his part, has taken policy advice in the past from a group of anti-abortion activists and attorneys, and Elaine reminded me that they will seek to influence his policy decisions if he wins. A major focus of some anti-abortion activists’ efforts, as Elaine has written, would … Read more
Women won’t be ‘conned’ by Trump’s abortion dance, Sen. Tina Smith says In the video announcing his position on the divisive issue, Trump did not rule out signing a national abortion ban. And he didn’t mention executive actions he could take without Congress that could curb access to abortion, even in blue states. Read more … Read more
The rightwing Heritage Foundation cited a maximalist approach to Comstock interpretation and enforcement – and the nationwide total abortion ban that would result – as one of their priorities in their “Project 2025”, a policy plan for a coming Trump administration. Meanwhile, in an amicus brief issued to the supreme court in the mifepristone case, … Read more
These radical social conservatives could define Trump’s second term. Read more at Vox
Anti-abortion advocates are reading between the lines What to know about Trump’s abortion announcement The easiest way for Trump to move the needle on abortion policy during a second term is through executive action — a topic he did not address Monday. Anti-abortion advocates told POLITICO they don’t view Trump’s declaration that abortion should be … Read more
The far right the Heritage Foundation belongs to is, nevertheless, driving toward this goal by striving to take away birth control and abortion to make sex punitively risky for anyone who might get pregnant. Taking away women’s reproductive freedom takes away other freedoms, social, economic and educational, and rebuilds a society of gender inequality, which … Read more
Justices appear skeptical of call to restrict abortion pill Read more at Politico US supreme court hearing not a success for anti-abortion doctors, experts say Justices appear unconvinced by anti-abortion doctors’ standing to sue during hearing over access to FDA-approved pill mifepristone Read more at The Guardian Even the Supreme Court seems sick of its … Read more
What is the Comstock Act of 1873 and how is it tied to abortion pill case? The Comstock Act is a set of federal laws passed by Congress in 1873. It made it illegal to send “obscene, lewd or lascivious,” “immoral” or “indecent” materials through mail, including drugs that induce abortions and contraception. Read more … Read more
What’s at stake in the Supreme Court mifepristone case Legal scholars like Ziegler also note that there’s an even bigger way that this case could affect everyone in the country. “You have, lurking in the background, the possibility that the Comstock Act is going to be reinvented as an abortion ban,” she says. Read more … Read more
The question people should be asking is whether Trump will give free rein to the anti-abortion advisers in his orbit, Mary Ziegler, a law professor at the UC Davis School of Law, told me. The big thing those advisers are pushing for is the reinterpretation and enforcement of the Comstock Act. As I wrote in … Read more
