Anti-abortion advocates press Trump for more restrictions as abortion pill sales spike

[riversedge]

The Repugs are just itching to do this.


Anti-abortion advocates press Trump for more restrictions as abortion pill sales spike

https://apnews.com/article/trump-abortion-mifepristone-emergency-hospitals-pills-7c34e972e5c7a63821fd09996ba8d881

FILE - Mifepristone tablets are seen in a Planned Parenthood clinic July 18, 2024, in Ames, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)
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By AMANDA SEITZ
Updated 11:01 PM CST, November 8, 2024

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Anti-abortion advocates say there is still work to be done to further restrict access to abortion when Republican Donald Trump returns to the White House next year.

They point to the federal guidance that the administration of Democratic President Joe Biden released around emergency abortions, requiring that hospitals provide them for women whose health or life is at risk, and its easing of prescribing restrictions for abortion pills that have allowed women to order the medication online with the click of a button.

“Now the work begins to dismantle the pro-abortion policies of the Biden-Harris administration,” the Susan B. Anthony List, the powerful anti-abortion lobby, said in a statement Wednesday. “President Trump’s first-term pro-life accomplishments are the baseline for his second term.”

The group declined to release details about what, specifically, they will seek to undo. But abortion rights advocates are bracing for further abortion restrictions once Trump takes office. And some women are, too, with online abortion pill orders spiking in the days after Election Day. ................

[Ocelot II]

1. All those successful pro-choice initiatives in the states won't be worth a damn

if there is a national abortion ban, including outlawing mifepristone and misoprostal. The federal law is controlling, so all those Trump-voting women who nevertheless wanted their reproductive rights protected could be in for a nasty shock.

[Dem4life1234]

2. Their dumbasses should have voted for Kamala

[in2herbs]

3. How would a national ban work in those states that enshrined the right to health care in their

State Constitution?

[Ocelot II]

5. The Supremacy Clause of the Constitution says federal law is controlling

over state laws and constitutions: "This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding."

[in2herbs]

6. I understand. However, hasn't the USSC been eroding that with their states rights agenda? nt

[Ocelot II]

7. States' rights come into play as long as there's no express federal law that's contrary to a state law.

That's the 10th Amendment: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." Printz v. United States held that Congress could not compel state officers to execute federal law (interim provision of Brady law requiring local law enforcement to do background checks for gun purchases held unconstitutional under 10th Amendment). Here's a good explanation of how the 10th Amendment might be used following the repeal of Roe: https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/fair-weather-federalism-strategic-uses-10th-amendment

[claudette]

4. Are we supposed

to feel sorry for magat women who voted for the orange felon if they suffer or die from lack of proper care because of the dope who allowed this? They voted for it so……. You get what you ask for

[J_William_Ryan]

8. Anti-choice advocates.

It was never about ‘saving babies’ – it was always about more government, bigger government at the expense of individual liberty.

So much for ‘let the states decide’ lie.