Washington, DC — At present, former President Donald Trump formally secured the GOP nomination for president in 2024.
Reproductive Freedom for All President and CEO Mini Timmaraju launched the next assertion in response:
“Donald Trump is the largest menace to reproductive freedom and our democracy that our nation has confronted in generations. In his first time period, he stacked the courts with extremist judges and overturned Roe. The very actual risks of a second time period for Trump are clear. We should reelect President Biden and Vice President Harris to revive our rights and safeguard our democracy.”
Reproductive Freedom for All introduced an early endorsement of the Biden-Harris ticket final June alongside Deliberate Parenthood Votes and EMILYs Listing. As Republican politicians endanger the well being and lives of tens of millions of Individuals with abortion bans, combat legal guidelines meant to make sure sufferers going through emergencies can entry care, threaten individuals who miscarry with jail time, and declare their help for a nationwide ban, the one technique to restore our rights and freedoms is by reelecting President Biden and Vice President Harris. This administration has carried out extra to defend reproductive freedom and develop abortion entry than every other in historical past—from establishing the Reproductive Rights Job Drive to championing the restoration of the federal proper to abortion to placing Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson on the Supreme Courtroom, and a lot extra.
A second Trump presidency would give Donald Trump one other alternative to do untold harm to our basic rights. Anti-abortion teams—who teamed up with Trump throughout his final administration to overturn Roe and decimate reproductive freedom—have partnered with different conservatives to create a prolonged agenda that he may start launching on Day Certainly one of his administration. These plans supply Trump a laundry listing of choices to assault abortion rights and entry, together with reviving the so-called home gag rule, deploying the Federal Commerce Fee to penalize and prosecute digital clinics that prescribe abortion capsules to folks in states with bans, trying to wilfully misread and misuse the antiquated Comstock Act to dam entry to each abortion capsules and medical tools used for abortion care, and rescinding all the insurance policies the Biden-Harris administration enacted that expanded abortion entry.
Donald Trump’s work to finish entry to abortion and undermine reproductive freedom is plain:
- Throughout his presidency, Trump stacked the federal judiciary with conservative ideologues and constructed the anti-abortion supermajority on the Supreme Courtroom that overturned Roe v. Wade and ended the federal proper to abortion.
- Trump put in anti-abortion extremists in key management roles all through his administration, together with Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley, former U.S. Legal professional Normal Jeff Classes, former Well being and Human Providers Secretaries Tom Value and Alex Azar, former Director of the Workplace of Civil Rights Roger Severino, and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
- He put the dangerous home gag rule in place. This anti-abortion coverage decimated the Title X household planning community by forcing many well being care suppliers out of this system who—along with different companies—offered abortion care. The restriction additionally prohibited Title X suppliers from referring for abortion care, even when sufferers requested the data.
- Trump didn’t simply reinstate the anti-abortion world gag rule—he expanded it. Although earlier Republican presidents have utilized the coverage, the Trump administration’s model enormously expanded it to use to organizations receiving any U.S. world well being help.
Reproductive Freedom for All is already on the bottom in states throughout the nation as a part of its largest-ever electoral program, working to make sure reproductive freedom champions are elected from statehouses to the White Home and that we defend and develop abortion rights and entry by way of poll measures. Our 2024 program connects voters with alternatives to make rapid, tangible change to assist construct a future the place everyone seems to be free to make their very own selections about their our bodies, lives, and households. This system focuses on participating members and voters — and particularly Gen Z, younger Black voters, and younger voters of shade — by way of digital and relational organizing, deep discipline investments, strong accountability and communications applications, on-the-ground help in key races and poll initiatives, and extra.
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For over 50 years, Reproductive Freedom for All (previously NARAL Professional-Selection America) has fought to guard and advance reproductive freedom on the federal and state ranges—together with entry to abortion care, contraception, being pregnant and post-partum care, and paid household go away—for eachphysique. Reproductive Freedom for All is powered by its greater than 4 million members from each state and congressional district within the nation, representing the 8 in 10 Individuals who help authorized abortion.