NARAL Pro-Choice America recently changed its name to Reproductive Freedom for All. Our name may be new, but our mission of protecting and expanding reproductive freedom remains the same.
Here are the five most likely ways the Trump-Vance administration will try to ban abortion—without passing a single law or admitting they're actually banning abortion:
1. Restricting medication abortion (aka the abortion pill)
Anti-abortion extremists are pushing to ban or restrict mifepristone, a safe (safer than Tylenol!) and widely used medication for abortion and miscarriage care.
With Trump's nomination of Martin Makary—who has spread anti-abortion disinformation—as FDA Commissioner, we're closely watching for court cases or new FDA restrictions that could limit access.
2. Denying emergency medical care
Abortion bans have already caused tragic, preventable deaths, and extremists are now trying to strip emergency abortion care from coverage under EMTALA, a federal law that gives people the right to receive life-saving treatment.
Trump's Department of Justice—led by anti-abortion extremist Pam Bondi—could refuse to defend EMTALA or even challenge state laws protecting abortion rights.
3. Blocking medication abortion and medical equipment from the mail
Trump could make it so people cannot send or receive medications and medical equipment used for abortion care in the mail—effectively banning abortion nationwide.
The idea is to willfully misuse the old-as-hell 1873 Comstock Act which bans anything "immoral" from being mailed. And if doctors do not have the medicine or equipment they need to provide abortion care, that's a ban.
4. Expanding pregnancy surveillance through HHS
Trump told TIME that he'd "let red states monitor women's pregnancies and prosecute those who violate abortion bans"—a radical idea from Project 2025's vision for the Department of Health & Human Services.
And now Trump's brand new HHS Secretary is conspiracy slinger RFK Jr. He supports a national abortion ban and promised to reinstate and expand anti-abortion policies at HHS.
5. Using personhood language to ban abortion and birth control
Falsely implying that a fertilized egg is a "person" is part of Project 2025, and it could lead to banning abortion and common forms of birth control.
Trump already signed an anti-trans executive order that contains language defining life as beginning at conception. Although this executive order does not directly impact abortion, this language is a telling sign that Republicans are ready to act on their anti-reproductive freedom agenda.
Thank you for your support!
—The team @ Reproductive Freedom for All
NARAL Pro-Choice America is now Reproductive Freedom for All. Our name has changed, but our mission remains the same: protecting and advancing freedom for everybody.
|
|
|