Donald Trump Revealed His Plans for Abortion as President - The Debate

Donald Trump has been trying to masquerade as a 'moderate' on abortion issues but Kamala Harris forced him to spill his true intentions in her brilliant debate performance.

Here’s what we learned about the future of our reproductive freedom in last night’s consequential presidential debate - Donald Trump is willing to ban abortion nationally.

He wiggled and squiggled to try to get out of being pinned down on the issue. He resorted to the excuse that Congress would never pass legislation to end abortion nationally anyway.

BUT when he couldn’t evade the moderator’s question any longer , he just shut up (for once) and refused to commit to vetoing a national abortion ban.

In other words, if a national abortion ban is passed in a Republican-controlled House and a Republican-controlled Senate, Trump will sign a national abortion ban.

And that means it will apply to every single state, even the Blue states. Even to states where abortion protections have been enshrined into the state constitutions such as in Ohio.

Yes, all that work that Americans who believe in reproductive freedom have done, will have been for nothing.

The second thing we learned about Donald Trump is that he continues to lie about Project 2025. “I don’t know anything about it,” he whined last night. “ I haven’t read it.”

I bet he hasn’t. That’s probably the only thing he said last night that was true. The guy doesn’t read and his Project 2025 guide to governing as president is over 900 pages.

But that doesn’t matter. He knows EXACTLY what’s in it.

He is besties with Kevin Roberts, president of the Heritage Foundation, which compiled the guidebook for how to turn America’s democracy into a fascist Trump dictatorship. Plus 140 of Project 2025’s writers have worked for him or are currently working for him.

Donald Trump’s national press secretary for his current presidential campaign - Karoline Leavitt - is featured in one of the 23 Project 2025 training videos . These videos were filmed in order to instruct the future 50,000 Trump civil service members, on how to be dedicated Trump loyalists.

.They all went viral. These 50,000 new members of every federal agency will be hired purely for their loyalty to Trump and not the Constitution if he wins.

Never mind, that they will know nothing about how to protect nuclear weapons, keep your food or water safe or help Americans who are victims of natural disasters.

Details, details.

In any case, Donald Trump continues to be a liar, liar pants on fire when it comes to his knowledge about Project 2025.

Let me remind you that while we are on the important subject of Project 2025 - it contains two surefire ways to institute a backdoor national abortion ban, without any help from Congress.

Trump will appoint a Food and Drug Administration director who will withdraw the two abortion pills - mifepristone and misoprostol - from the market.

Then he’ll direct his Justice Dept to enforce the 1873 Comstock Act, which will make it illegal for abortion medication and the surgical supplies used for abortions, to be shipped across state lines.

Easy, peasy, abortion in America … ended.

Here’s a third thing we learned about Donald Trump and abortion. He is very, very proud that he appointed the three ultra right wing justices on the Supreme Court who enabled Roe V Wade to be overturned. He told us so during the Trump/Harris debate.

Not only that, he ranted repeatedly that he only did what “everyone’ wanted.

He told the American people that “everyone” ( that’s us ) wanted the abortion issue sent back to the states. Also that “every, legal scholar wanted it done”,.

Let me address both of these points he made.

First, NOT every ‘legal’ or constitutional scholar wanted abortion to be decided by state legislatures and courts. The renowned Laurence Tribe, who is a constitutional Professor Emeritus at Harvard University, didn’t.

He called the Supreme Court’s Dobbs ruling which overturned Roe V Wade, a ‘radical change in law and society’ which ‘truly has no parallel in the history of the Supreme Court or the history of the United States’. He wrote this in an article for the US Guardian all about the Dobbs ruling.

Within his piece, he quotes New York Times Op ed writer, Jamelle Bouie. Bouie pointed out that “equal standing ( for women ) is undermined and eroded when the state can effectively seize your person for its own ends - that is - when it can force you to give birth.”

Tribe then ends by warning that the Supreme Court has unleashed ‘carnage’ on the American people and “it’s own legitimacy “with this ruling.

OUCH!

So Donald, not EVERY legal scholar agreed that abortion should have been sent back to the states.

Then there’s US Rep Jamie Raskin who was a constitutional law professor for 25 years at American University Washington College of Law. He tweeted this nugget a year after Roe was overturned.

“American futures stand opposed: one upholding women’s rights & health care, one defined by theocrats, misogynists and fanatics. Pro-choice America won't rest until we restore women’s freedom as law of the land.”

I rest my case on the legal scholars.

As for the rest of us wanting to lose our federal protection to access abortion, Kamala Harris did a devastatingly effective job last night of smashing that Trump contention .

Do pregnant women who are miscarrying want to bleed out in their cars because doctors are too afraid to treat them until they are near death?

“Women didn’t ask for this”, said Kamala.

Do twelve year-olds, who are incest victims want to be forced to carry their pregnancies to term?

“They didn’t ask for that”, said Kamala.

No they did not.

Neither did multiple women that I myself have interviewed, ‘ask” for the 22 state abortion bans.

Texan Amanda Zurawski didn’t “ask” to be forced to get sepsis and nearly die when her water broke at 18 weeks. Doctors couldn’t give her an abortion while her unviable baby still had a heartbeat.

Allie Phillips of Tennessee didn’t “ask” to be forced to travel to New York City when she learned her baby had not properly developed a brain, kidneys stomach or bladder and couldn’t live outside the womb.

Lastly, we learned something else about Donald Trump that should send shudders down the spines of every woman in America.

When Kamala Harris dropped the bomb on Trump that world leaders have been laughing at him, he sputtered that Hungary’s dictator, Viktor Orban loves him.

Not only has Orban destroyed Hungary’s democracy and turned it into an authoritarian state, but he has systematically pushed Hungarian women back into a sub class class in society and made it extremely difficult for them to obtain abortions. And this is in a country where it had been legal since 1953.

Hungarian women can still - if they are lucky - get abortions up until 12 weeks in the country but within that timeframe they must have had meetings twice with a state service agency , in order to get approved for the abortion. They are also required to listen to the fetus’s heartbeat.

Reportedly, it takes so long to get these appointments that dozens of Hungarian women travel to another European country every week in order to undergo the procedure.

Oh, and medication abortions are banned in Hungary.

Instead Orban tries to entice women who are in heterosexual marriages, under 40 and employed - only those type of women - to have babies by offering tax breaks and subsidized mortgages.

If they don’t fit that criteria, then Orban doesn’t want their offspring..

His goal is to make the ‘traditional family’ with ‘ethnically homogeneous’ Hungarian women staying home with their children, the basis of society.

Yes, that sounds like what the Republicans, Trump and Project 2025 are all aiming to do here in America too, doesn’t it?

Looking at you, JD Vance.

If all that sounds fine to you, then please, by all means, make use of your right to vote and cast your ballot for Trump.

On the other hand, Kamala reassured us in the debate last night that she will fight for the reproductive freedom of every American woman to make decisions about her own body.

If a Democratic House and a Democratic Senate pass legislation that codifies the protections of Roe v Wade into law, she will sign it.

I sure don’t want Donald Trump or any politician in my bedroom or doctor’s office, so I know what my choice will be.

How about you?