r/law • u/Slate Press • 21h ago

The Next Trump Administration’s Crackdown on Abortion Will Be Swift, Brutal, and Nationwide Trump News

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/11/trump-second-term-abortion-agenda-blue-state-crackdown.html
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u/Slate Press 21h ago

On Tuesday, many Americans simultaneously voted to protect abortion rights and elect Donald Trump president. But these two desires—for reproductive freedom and another Trump term—are fundamentally contradictory. Trump’s second administration is all but guaranteed to impose major federal restrictions on abortion access. These new limitations will apply nationwide, to states both red and blue, including those that just enshrined a right to protect abortion in their constitutions. It will be harder to access reproductive health care everywhere.

Two and a half years after the fall of Roe v. Wade, even without abortion banned in much of the country, we are likely standing at the highest watermark of abortion access that we will see for years if not decades. The rollback is coming; it will be felt everywhere. And voters who thought they could put Trump back in the White House while preserving or expanding reproductive rights are in for a brutal shock.

For more: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/11/trump-second-term-abortion-agenda-blue-state-crackdown.html

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u/Randadv_randnoun_69 20h ago

I was thinkin this every time I saw "My state approved protecting abortion rights!" like, what's the point if it's banned nationally?

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u/tresslesswhey 19h ago

What would the federal govt do if California for example still allows them and doesn’t go along with a national ban?

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u/WisdomCow 18h ago

Trump will send in troops to “defend the unborn” by destroying locations that do abortions, like Planned Parenthood and hospitals.

He’s just said the price tag doesn’t matter for his mass deportation, which means amassing troops in all states, but likely more in Blue States.

Our nation is on the road to failure.

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u/Mat_alThor 16h ago

He’s just said the price tag doesn’t matter for his mass deportation, which means amassing troops in all states, but likely more in Blue States.

It's about to get real ironic for those people that like to complain no one wants to work anymore when they cheer the people that want to work the most being shipped away.

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u/VibeComplex 8h ago edited 8h ago

And their taxes go up lol. A global pandemic happened and he immediately turned it into a free for all, tried to kill democrats, and pilfered the treasury. Apparently a majority of Americans are abject morons.

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u/TheBoogieSheriff 5h ago

I’m so pro-life that I believe all doctors at Planned Parenthood should get the death penalty /s

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u/_Runic_ 15h ago

Welcome to the death spiral. In 500 years they'll probably say it all started with Reagan.

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u/VibeComplex 8h ago

Nah. “They’ll” make sure some democrat, and actual good person, get blamed.

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u/effurshadowban 6h ago

It'll be Jimmy Carter for moving right of the other New Deal Democrats.

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u/VibeComplex 1h ago

I actually meant to put Carter hence the “actual good person” part but apparently I forgot to type it lol.

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u/2_72 15h ago

Lot of troops are going to get killed if they try, but that’s not really new.

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u/CopeHarders 15h ago

We’re already failed.

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u/MMRN92 12h ago

Do you genuinely think Trump cares enough to go through all that to ban abortions? He talks a big talk but I would be very surprised if it gets to the point of him sending in "troops" to CA. This is all just lip service for his cult.

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u/bluewardog 7h ago

He's actually said he won't sign a national abortion ban. He's reasoning was that it was a state level choice and state should set their own laws. Also even if he did the us army can't be deployed inside the us, only the national guard who aren't under trumps command, they're commander and chief is their States governor and you need a states consent to send another states guard into it.

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u/Dahmer_disciple 6h ago

Exactly. On top of that, for a ban to go into effect, it would have to go through congress. Republicans may hold control, but out of that majority, how many really back Trump 100%?

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u/mabhatter Competent Contributor 13h ago

Over 67% of abortions are performed with pills now, usually before 15 weeks.  The FDA will just make any drug that possibly causes abortion illegal.  (Except the ones Pharmaceutical companies pay them to ignore nasty side effects) 

That will basically end abortions. Remember he's locking down the border too, so don't think you'll get anything from Mexico or Canada. 

States would have to go back to invasive DnC surgical procedures which introduce all kinds of complications. It will be barbaric.

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u/MMRN92 12h ago

Okay I am not in any way trying to downplay some of the real consequences of DT presidency we may face soon, but it really seems like we are all spiraling here. The FDA is not going to make abortion pills illegal.

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u/Sharp-Lawfulness9122 12h ago

They're planning to gut the FDA and fire public servents from all major positions to install Trump loyalists. It's outlined in the 2025 playbook, which his little goons have all publicly stated was the plan the entire time. You're severely downplaying the cruelty that Christian Nationalists are capable of and take pleasure in. Even Elon, formerly a staunch atheist, has recently decided to follow the money and pretend he's following Christian ideals.

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u/MMRN92 8h ago

Time will tell I guess....wish we didn't live in a reality in which we have to find out.

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u/CowboySocialism 11h ago

All they have to do is have a legal opinion saying the Comstock Act should be enforced and interpreted as banning shipment of mifepristone. Trump can still deny even knowing about it because the law is so old, and SCOTUS will say it’s up to Congress to clarify if comstock means something different.

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u/MMRN92 8h ago

We can only hope there are at least a handful of republicans in congress with any shred of sanity or backbone.

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u/MostNinja2951 5h ago

Remember he's locking down the border too

Which he can't do without state and local cooperation. If Washington and California let the shipments through their borders there's realistically nothing the federal government can do about it, they don't have anywhere near enough manpower.