Overturning Roe will make abortion subject to real democracy

This shows clearly the mental illness of leftardism. It isn’t enough for them to kill their own preborn babies. They demand that everyone else celebrate the death of a human in the fetal stage of the human lifecycle because the leftard mindset is too fragile to accept any form of criticism for their actions. It isn’t enough for them to be allowed to kill their preborn infants…they insist that the rest of us be forced into complicity in the demonic act of child sacrifice by demanding tax dollars pay for this slaughter.

12/22/23 – Inside the MAGA Plan to Attack Birth Control, Surveil Women and Ban the Abortion Pill –

Republicans’ Project 2025 blueprint spells out how they’ll leverage virtually every arm, tool and agency of the federal government to attack abortion.

THE SUPREME COURT announced last week that it would take up a case considering restrictions on the most widely-used method of abortion in the United States: the abortion pill. Under a worst-case scenario for American women, that case could have triggered a full reversal of the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of mifepristone, cutting off access to the medication across the country. That didn’t happen. The Supreme Court said it would only consider a more narrow set of questions about regulatory changes that have made the abortion pill more accessible in recent years. It could significantly limit access to mifepristone, but won’t end it altogether. 

But it may not matter how the high court rules if Republicans win the presidency next November. That’s because GOP operatives have already crafted an expansive blueprint, 887 pages long, laying out in painstaking detail how they intend to govern, including plans to leverage virtually every arm, tool and agency of the federal government to attack abortion access. The document explicitly names their intention not just to rescind FDA approval for the abortion pill if they regain control of the White House in 2024, but to revive a 150-year-old law that criminalizes sending or receiving through the mail any “article, instrument, substance, drug, medicine or thing” that could be used to facilitate an abortion. That law, the Comstock Act, is viewed as a de facto federal abortion ban by reproductive rights advocates and anti-abortion activists alike.

Those plans — and many more, including proposals to attack contraception access, use the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to increase “abortion surveillance” and data collection, rescind a Department of Defense policy to “prohibit abortion travel funding,” punish states that require health insurance plans to cover abortion, and retool a law that is currently protecting pregnant women with life-threatening conditions — are outlined in Project 2025’s “Mandate for Leadership.” 

Project 2025 is an initiative of the Heritage Foundation, a rightwing think tank that has helped staff and set the agenda for every Republican administration since Ronald Reagan. It describes Project 2025 as “the conservative movement’s unified effort to be ready for the next conservative administration to govern at 12:00 noon, January 20, 2025.” 

For the last 40 years, Heritage has released a similarly detailed list of policy recommendations before every presidential contest. The organization has a strong track record of exerting influence: Reagan enacted roughly half of the recommendations his first year in office. But Donald Trump bearhugged Heritage’s agenda: In 2018, just one year into his administration, Heritage boasted that Trump had already implemented two-thirds of their policy recommendations, the most of any president since the organization’s founding.

There is good reason to believe that Trump, if nominated and elected, would find this new set of recommendations even more compelling than he did in his first term. That’s because it was drafted with extensive input from many of his allies, advisers and appointees. Among the groups that contributed are America First Legal (led by high-ranking Trump administration officials Stephen Miller and Gene Hamilton), the Conservative Partnership Institute (where Mark Meadows, Trump’s last chief of staff, is a senior partner) and the Center for Renewing America (helmed by Russell Vought, the director of the Office of Management and Budget under Trump). High-ranking Trump administration officials even authored individual chapters of the report, including its recommendations to dramatically restrict abortion access. 

The chapter that envisions reshaping the Department of Health and Human Services was authored by the Heritage Foundation’s vice president for domestic policy, Roger Severino, who served as the head of HHS’ Office of Civil Rights under Trump. “Now that the Supreme Court has acknowledged that the Constitution contains no right to an abortion, the FDA is ethically and legally obliged to revisit and withdraw its initial approval” of mifepristone, Severino writes. (Incidentally, Severino’s wife, Carrie, is the president of the Judicial Crisis Network, the dark money group that spent tens of millions of dollars on advocacy campaigns that helped cement the Supreme Court’s 6-3 conservative supermajority responsible for ending the federal right to abortion.)

Writing for Project 2025, Severino calls abortion pills “the single greatest threat to unborn children” now that Roe v. Wade has been overturned. He proposes that, as an “interim step,” the next HHS secretary immediately reimpose old regulations that required the pill be dispensed in-person, under a doctor’s supervision, a requirement researchers have long argued is unnecessary. His proposal would also shorten the period in which mifepristone could be prescribed to terminate pregnancies: 7 weeks gestation or less, compared to 10 weeks today…

Unintended consequences: Abortions sharply increase in US despite bans in Republican-led states –
In spite of, or because of? Young women might feel more pressure now to make quick decisions .