Summarizing Jessica Valenti, here’s how they would do it:
- Replace the head of the FDA with a Christian nationalist apparatchik and reverse approval of abortion medication. That ends over sixty percent of abortions.
- A Trump Attorney General will interpret the Comstock Act, a 19th century law that bans the mailing of ‘obscene’ materials, as applying to abortion. This wouldn’t just affect the shipping of abortion pills, but also tools or supplies to provide services for abortion.
That’s it. It’s that simple.
If you think this is wild-eyed conjecture, conservatives have repeatedly put this in writing (e.g., Pr•ject 2025, p. 284) and have said this out loud–to other people. And the idea that Trump, an adjudicated rapist, credible sexual assaulter of dozens of women, a man who lied to his wife, and a serial fraudster for decades, should be trusted to not enact this policy would be laughable. He’s a liar. You can’t trust him. At all. Those are the wages of lying, which Trump has earned in spades. But I’m sure a Republican-dominated judiciary will save us…
Hopefully, Biden et alia will tell people this non-stop.
mikethemadbiologist
Will we still be able to get pessaries from Japan, as long as they’re prescribed by a doctor?
Probably not. Somehow or other, the importation would be banned.
I still wonder if it’s gotten through to President Biden that he has to campaign for real and stop playing footsie with the opposition.