What isn’t Uncertain After the Presidential Debate? The Threat To Women’s Lives & Fertility
It doesn’t matter who ends up topping the Democratic ticket - they will protect women's’ reproductive freedom. Donald Trump will end our rights. Here[‘s what to tell panicking friends.
Yes, there is a massive mood of uncertainty hanging over all of us since the Biden/Trump presidential debate.
But what ISN’T uncertain is that if Donald Trump is elected, there will no longer be legal abortion in America. All Americans need to accept this fact no matter how Trump tried to muddy the waters like he did during the presidential debate, by declaring that he would not “block abortion pills”.
He was merely playing a game with words. He knows that he doesn’t have to officially “block” abortion across the land by signing legislation or an executive order to “ban” the abortion pill or ban surgical abortions throughout every single state in this country.
Trump can effectively ban abortion nationally without making a big announcement about it. And yes this would even include in the states where citizens have resoundingly voted to add the right to an abortion to their state constitutions.
Instead he can do it “undercover” in two ways - by appointing an FDA chief who simply withdraws both abortion pills - mifepristone and misoprostol - from the American market by ludicrously but legally claiming that they are not safe. And two by ordering his subservient Justice Department to enforce the 1973 Comstock Act.
The Comstock Act prohibits the transportation across state lines of any medication OR surgical instruments that can be used in abortion. SO, unless you live in a state that manufactures surgical equipment used in abortions - and also FYI - used in miscarriage treatment and other women’s reproductive health care - you are out of luck.
By the way, if you don’t believe me about Trump making use of slippery language in his abortion pill ‘block’ denial during the debate, just read one of the excellent short summaries of Project 2025 - which is posted online and which outlines Trump’s wishlist for making America a monarchy again - with King Trump on top as America’s absolute ruler.
Media Matters has posted an easy - to - read summary of Project 2025 and Courier Newsroom’s short video covers major Project 2025 points. I urge you to read or watch both so you can’t say that you haven’t been warned about Trump’s plans to turn America into a Christian Nationalist dystopia where women lose all control over their bodies, Handmaid’s Tale - style.
So the threat that Trump and all the Republicans represent to women who dare to want to control their own bodies hasn’t changed since the presidential debate. It doesn’t matter whether Joe Biden or another candidate is ultimately the Democratic nominee in November - the Democrats will protect the reproductive freedom of American women.
And if we voters can deliver a Democratic Senate and House as well as a president, then we even have a chance of legislating Roe V Wade into becoming the law of the land plus adding laws that protect contraception and IVF.
It’s up to us.
Women and the people who care for them are literally in the fight of our lives to persuade a majority of American voters to cast ballots for Democratic candidates up and down the ticket, no matter what!
For all the doubters out there who don’t think that the former playboy Donald Trump will actually end abortion and then will also go on to severely limit or even end access to contraceptives and IVF, please consider who Trump is in bed with.
No, not Melania - but the allies who joined his camp before the 2016 election specifically because he swore to appoint judges to the Supreme Court who would end Roe v Wade.
These ultra right partners of his have only become more radicalized since 2026 and eager to fulfill their end goal of putting women back where they see women’s place - married, pregnant and in the kitchen.
So much for our careers, our independent lifestyles and the economic powerhouses that women have become. Trump’s right wing Christian Nationalist allies don’t like that one bit.
Donald Trump only won the White House and will only win the White House again in 2024 with the help of powerful anti abortion partners like Protestant Evangelicals, ultra religious Catholics, the conservative activist legal organization, the Federalist Society, the conservative Heritage Foundation think tank,the anti abortion organization, the Susan B Anthony Project and other Christian fundamentalist extremists who want to obliterate the separation of church and state and make us a ‘Christian nationalist country.
These groups are extremely well financed - some by right wing billionaires - and they have been working ceaselessly for decades to make abortion illegal again and to roll back women’s rights.
It doesn’t matter that Trump may not personally be an anti abortion zealot himself.
He is a zealot about returning to the presidency and regaining the massive power that goes along with it - in large part to ensure that all the pending criminal cases against him - for inciting the Jan 6 Insurrection, for stealing classified documents and for racketeering in Georgia - go away. Poof!
Plus, being elected president again, will redeem his fragile ego from the “loser” status, that he mentally can’t accept. That’s why he had to concock the “Big Lie” that the election was stolen.
Believe me when I say that Trump, who cares about exactly one person in this world - himself - will have ZERO compunctions about ending access to abortion, contraception and IVF, for 167 million women in America.
That’s what his extremist allies want. Already 125 House Republicans have co-sponsored a “Life At Conception Act”, which states that newly fertilized eggs have “personhood’ and therefore they can’t be destroyed during IVF procedures.
Bye - Bye IVF!
Trump has already said that he is “looking” at restrictions on contraception and all but two Republican Senators just voted against the “Right To Contraception Act’.
Bye Bye contraception!
Trump will be just fine about ending access to all the modern reproductive choices we thought were ours - as long as it keeps the forces that put him into the White House happy.
He will not care if thousands of women die or become infertile needlessly because of abortion and contraception bans. He will not care if hundreds of thousands of women are forced to have government - mandated pregnancies that they can’t afford - and then must raise children in poverty.
He will not care if infertile women and couples can no longer access necessary IVF treatments to have the families they long for. He will not give a hoot that tens of thousands - maybe more - women have frozen their eggs in hopes of having babies when they have a partner or are in an economically viable position to raise children.Nope - no IVF for you.
He also will not care about women who are cancer patients and have frozen their eggs and embryos until they are healthy, in order to have a family. IVF will be banned for them too.
He also won’t cared that thousands more babies will die shortly after birth like what is already happening in Texas where deaths of newborns rose 13%, the year after they passed the first abortion ban in the country.
Sadly, that is a consequence of women being forced by Republican abortion bans to carry babies who can’t survive outside the womb due to congenital anomalies.
All this is in America’s future if Trump is elected.
And every woman voting on Nov 5 has to ask herself: am I willing to risk a pregnancy or for my daughter or granddaughter to risk a pregnancy under a Trump presidency or even in the future, period. After all, once Trump has appointed hundreds more rabid anti abortion judges to the courts it will be decades before women can potentially get their rights back.
Women are already nearly dying and losing their fertility in abortion ban states today.
But many more women are only surviving by fleeing to ‘abortion legal’ states or by being emergency airlifted to one of those states, in order to receive life saving abortions.
What will happen to them in an America where abortion is banned everywhere?!
They will die. And Donald Trump and his anti abortion partners won’t care one bit.
It’s time to speak to friends, to your families, to people you randomly meet about the choice they face at the ballot box in Nov no matter who is the Democratic candidate for president versus Trump.
Please ask them to consider before they rate another Trump tax cut as their top voting priority, or fantasize that somehow Trump will lower grocery store prices, or they hallucinate that Trump will create more than the 15 million new jobs that Biden just did, to please ask themselves - are they ready themselves or ready for their female loved ones to die for lack of access to modern medical health care?
Are they ready for an America where men live in the modern world and women live in the 1800s? That’s what they will get with Trump.
A modern world for women too. That’s what they get with Biden or any Democratic president.
That’s the choice in 2024
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