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Abortion opponents prepare to undermine just-passed ballot measures
Abortion opponents prepare to undermine just-passed ballot measuresAnti-abortion groups on Tuesday unveiled their “Make America Pro-Life Again Roadmap,” an effort to chip away at federal and state access, including in nearly a dozen states that enshrined protections through ballot measures over the last two years.
Drawing on the playbook they successfully used under Roe v. Wade to regulate clinics out of existence and outlaw particular methods of abortion, conservative groups plan next year to file lawsuits targeting federal regulation of abortion pills and push legislation in Congress and in at least 15 states they believe can circumvent constitutional amendments and court rulings protecting the procedure.
Most of the bills target mifepristone — the drug used in more than two-thirds of abortions nationwide. Some attempt to wield environmental laws to cut off access, while others aim to replicate Louisiana’s new law designating abortion pills as controlled substances — a policy that patients and doctors are claiming in court has led to delays in treatment for miscarriages and postpartum hemorrhaging.
While President-elect Donald Trump and other Republicans campaigned on a promise to leave abortion policy to the states, Students for Life is lobbying allies on Capitol Hill to ban telehealth prescriptions of abortion pills and slash funding for colleges and universities that provide abortion pills through student health centers.
The group also seeks to reenergize conservatives discouraged by the GOP’s purported retreat from national abortion restrictions and dismayed that the pro-abortion-rights side prevailed in the vast majority of ballot initiatives since Roe’s fall in 2022.
Drawing on the playbook they successfully used under Roe v. Wade to regulate clinics out of existence and outlaw particular methods of abortion, conservative groups plan next year to file lawsuits targeting federal regulation of abortion pills and push legislation in Congress and in at least 15 states they believe can circumvent constitutional amendments and court rulings protecting the procedure.
Most of the bills target mifepristone — the drug used in more than two-thirds of abortions nationwide. Some attempt to wield environmental laws to cut off access, while others aim to replicate Louisiana’s new law designating abortion pills as controlled substances — a policy that patients and doctors are claiming in court has led to delays in treatment for miscarriages and postpartum hemorrhaging.
While President-elect Donald Trump and other Republicans campaigned on a promise to leave abortion policy to the states, Students for Life is lobbying allies on Capitol Hill to ban telehealth prescriptions of abortion pills and slash funding for colleges and universities that provide abortion pills through student health centers.
The group also seeks to reenergize conservatives discouraged by the GOP’s purported retreat from national abortion restrictions and dismayed that the pro-abortion-rights side prevailed in the vast majority of ballot initiatives since Roe’s fall in 2022.
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