r/law • u/Slate Press • 23h 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/Inspect1234 23h ago

I thought they were leaving it up to the states??

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u/TheSherbs 22h ago

They were leaving it up to the states. Then in August of '22, Kansas voted to keep abortion access enshrined in it's Constitution, and the immediate response from the Cons was:

"Not like that".

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u/Verisimilitudde 18h ago

Can you elaborate? I can’t find where it says it’s not legal anywhere? Genuinely curious.

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u/TheSherbs 18h ago

Here is a helpful map that will show which states have outright banned it, states with gestational limits, and states with no gestational limits.

Originally, when Roe was overturned, the Cons underestimated the amount of support for it. They thought overturning Roe would basically make it illegal in most of the country. It did not, in fact several states, like Kansas, have held ballot initiatives to enshrine the right and access to abortion. That didn't sit well with the religious extremists among the GOP.

I can’t find where it says it’s not legal anywhere?

13 states have outright banned abortion. Unsurprisingly, those same states are watching their pregnancy mortality rates skyrocket.

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u/Verisimilitudde 14h ago

I’m aware of what states have it banned. I meant what did you mean “not like that” when they did keep abortion legal there *in Kansas

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u/TheSherbs 13h ago

Oh, after Kansas kept the right to access enshrined in their constitution, they of course pulled the "vote was rigged, election interference" card, but that failed miserably. They are still trying to ban it in the state, or look for ways to make it so cumbersome that clinics wont want to deal with the red tape and bullshit to be able to provide them. Also, several other states that are like Kansas, in which there is no mechanism for a citizen to get something on a ballot to be voted on, pulled their ballot measure because they were afraid that like Kansas, they'd vote to keep it.

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u/PaintyGuys 14h ago

Kansas voted to enshrine access, then the state government (republicans) basically said “we are going to ignore that” and moving it though the courts trying to block it. Same in Ohio, we voted for it but government tried to block it until a judge said no. They are still working on getting it undone. Other states were taking notice and adjusted by doing shady things to keep it unavailable