{"id":3989,"date":"2026-08-04T15:51:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T22:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/?p=3989"},"modified":"2026-08-04T15:51:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T22:51:08","slug":"republican-senators-are-turning-todd-blanches-confirmation-fight-into-an-anti-abortion-free-for-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/2026\/08\/04\/republican-senators-are-turning-todd-blanches-confirmation-fight-into-an-anti-abortion-free-for-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican Senators Are Turning Todd Blanche&#8217;s Confirmation Fight Into an Anti-Abortion Free-For-All"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s no surprise that several of the asks of Blanche are about restricting access to medication abortion specifically. Conservatives are furious that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/06\/22\/nx-s1-5863103\/medication-abortion-telehealth-post-roe-dobbs\">abortions have increased<\/a>, not decreased, since the Supreme Court overturned <i>Roe v. Wade<\/i>, in large part due to the availability of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/apr\/26\/abortion-clinic-pills-shield-laws\">abortion pills via telehealth<\/a> in all 50 states. Project 2025 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.guttmacher.org\/fact-sheet\/how-project-2025-seeks-obliterate-srhr\">outlined<\/a> several steps the Trump administration could take to limit access to abortion pills, which it called \u201cthe <a href=\"https:\/\/static.heritage.org\/project2025\/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf#page=489\">single greatest threat<\/a> to unborn children in a post-<i>Roe<\/i> world.\u201d In 18 months, Trump has done none of them.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/ballsandstrikes.org\/law-politics\/todd-blanche-abortion-promises-republican-senators\/\">Balls and Strikes<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s no surprise that several of the asks of Blanche are about restricting access to medication abortion specifically. Conservatives are furious that abortions have increased, not decreased, since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, in large part due to the availability of abortion pills via telehealth in all 50 states. Project 2025 outlined several &#8230; <a title=\"Republican Senators Are Turning Todd Blanche&#8217;s Confirmation Fight Into an Anti-Abortion Free-For-All\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/2026\/08\/04\/republican-senators-are-turning-todd-blanches-confirmation-fight-into-an-anti-abortion-free-for-all\/\" aria-label=\"More on Republican Senators Are Turning Todd Blanche&#8217;s Confirmation Fight Into an Anti-Abortion Free-For-All\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[172,253,822,146,194,147,137,345,91,824,270],"class_list":["post-3989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-abortion-bans","tag-anti-abortion","tag-attorney-general","tag-comstock-act","tag-dobbs","tag-fda","tag-gop","tag-medication-abortion","tag-national-abortion-ban","tag-plan-c","tag-project-2025"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3989"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3990,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3989\/revisions\/3990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}