- Joined
- Jun 18, 2018
- Messages
- 78,053
- Reaction score
- 82,009
- Gender
- Male
- Political Leaning
- Progressive
"Earlier this week, the powerful Students for Life of America released its wishlist of federal legislation, entitled “Make America Pro-Life Again”, which takes direct aim at access to abortion pills. The group is backing federal bills that would ban abortion pills entirely, outlaw telehealth abortions and require medical-grade cleanup of the pregnancy remains left behind by medication abortions. (Students for Life argues that the pills pose a threat to the US water supply because people may pass the remains of their pregnancy into the toilet.) Currently, abortion pills account for roughly two-thirds of US abortions.
Trump...flip-flopped on whether he would veto a national abortion ban passed by Congress. But he wouldn’t necessarily have to. In an interview with the Guardian, Hawkins said she believed the Trump administration should enforce the Comstock Act – which may be the easiest way for a Trump administration to effectively implement a nationwide abortion ban. ...It could be used to ban the mailing of abortion pills, as proposed by Project 2025, ...other abortion opponents think the law can be used to stop abortion clinics from obtaining all of the materials they need to do their jobs.
Susan B Anthony Pro-Life America’s president, Marjorie Dannenfelser...called for Trump to reinstate a rule that would reshape the nation’s oldest family planning program, Title X, which helps people obtain services such as contraception and STI screenings at little to no cost. Most people who rely on Title X are women and have incomes that are below or around the poverty level...the Trump administration...implemented a rule that blocked Title X-funded family planning providers from mentioning the word abortion and required them to physically separate any services that involve abortion from those that don’t, such as by creating entirely separate waiting rooms, examination rooms and office entrances solely for abortion provision Rather than comply, about 1,200 family planning clinics – including every clinic run by Planned Parenthood, the anti-abortion movement’s greatest antagonist – left Title X. More than 1.5 million people are thought to have lost access to Title X services as a direct result of the Trump administration’s changes.
Dannenfelser indicated that her group would work to lay the groundwork for “fetal personhood”, a legal doctrine that would grant embyros and fetuses full legal rights and protections. “In order to go on offense and truly defeat the abortion industry in the long term, we must strengthen the pro-life, pro-woman, pro-family resolve of the Republican Party, centered on the unalienable right to life for the unborn child that exists under the 14th Amendment,” Dannenfelser said in the memo."
Link
Trump...flip-flopped on whether he would veto a national abortion ban passed by Congress. But he wouldn’t necessarily have to. In an interview with the Guardian, Hawkins said she believed the Trump administration should enforce the Comstock Act – which may be the easiest way for a Trump administration to effectively implement a nationwide abortion ban. ...It could be used to ban the mailing of abortion pills, as proposed by Project 2025, ...other abortion opponents think the law can be used to stop abortion clinics from obtaining all of the materials they need to do their jobs.
Susan B Anthony Pro-Life America’s president, Marjorie Dannenfelser...called for Trump to reinstate a rule that would reshape the nation’s oldest family planning program, Title X, which helps people obtain services such as contraception and STI screenings at little to no cost. Most people who rely on Title X are women and have incomes that are below or around the poverty level...the Trump administration...implemented a rule that blocked Title X-funded family planning providers from mentioning the word abortion and required them to physically separate any services that involve abortion from those that don’t, such as by creating entirely separate waiting rooms, examination rooms and office entrances solely for abortion provision Rather than comply, about 1,200 family planning clinics – including every clinic run by Planned Parenthood, the anti-abortion movement’s greatest antagonist – left Title X. More than 1.5 million people are thought to have lost access to Title X services as a direct result of the Trump administration’s changes.
Dannenfelser indicated that her group would work to lay the groundwork for “fetal personhood”, a legal doctrine that would grant embyros and fetuses full legal rights and protections. “In order to go on offense and truly defeat the abortion industry in the long term, we must strengthen the pro-life, pro-woman, pro-family resolve of the Republican Party, centered on the unalienable right to life for the unborn child that exists under the 14th Amendment,” Dannenfelser said in the memo."
Link
- Use the Comstock Act to limit access to abortion pills and close abortion services.
- Use Title X to ban speech about abortion.
- Use the 14th Amendment to create "fetal personhood (kind of ironic since they say the 14th Amendment doesn't give women the right to control their own bodies)