We Just Got a Big Signal About Trump’s Abortion Plans
55 years, 2 months ago

We Just Got a Big Signal About Trump’s Abortion Plans

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Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. The failure of such a relatively minor bill, though, is potentially a key indicator itself of how far Republicans may be willing to go with their unpopular abortion policies during Trump’s second term. It’s far too early to know what will come from the Trump administration on abortion, but the signs so far suggest that Republicans in Congress won’t be reliable allies for the anti-abortion movement. Many have focused on federal enforcement of the Comstock Act, the 19th-century obscenity law that anti-abortion lawyers have rebranded the “federal abortion pill anti-trafficking law.” Instead of spotlighting either of these proposals, Republicans looked to a born-alive bill, replaying a strategy designed when Roe v. Wade was still the law to survive judicial scrutiny and embarrass Democrats. That’s the same signal being sent by the letter a group of anti-abortion lawmakers delivered to the Trump administration laying out lawmakers’ wish list on abortion.

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