Make no mistake: this Trump presidency will continue to attack abortion rights | Moira Donegan

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

65% : This is all just what Trump could do on his own in his first years back in office.
64% : Abortion rights measures won in several states that Trump carried on Tuesday - including Arizona, Nevada, Montana and Missouri, all states that Trump won.
53% : Trump will be able to rescind access to it almost immediately, taking the drug off the legal US market.
45% : These judges are all likely to be anti-abortion zealots, as are the federal bureaucrats Trump will bring in to staff agencies such as the FDA, CDC and Department of Health and Human Services.
44% : Trump, of course, has insisted that this will not happen - which on its own might be a decent indication that it will.
40% : Abortion, as we know, will never be eliminated; it can only be less safe, and less dignified.
38% : Trump may well sign such legislation into law, eliminating abortion rights even in Democratic-controlled states and those that have recently passed abortion rights referendums with the stroke of a pen.
34% : Trump can simply restrict abortion through federal agencies.
34% : Trump is likely to also revive enforcement of the Comstock Act, a long-dormant 1873 law that bans the shipment of anything that could be used to induce an abortion through the US mail.
33% : Trump will probably appoint at least two supreme court justices to lifetime seats in his coming term; he will also fill an unknown number of vacancies on the lower federal courts, whose judges also serve for life.
31% : Asked about the Florida abortion rights proposition ahead of the election, Trump said that when he went to cast his ballot near Palm Beach, he would vote against it.
31% : Maybe this is why, though Trump appointed three of the six justices who overturned Roe v Wade and has boasted about his role in ending the right to an abortion, many voters seem to not quite believe that he will continue to suppress the procedure further in his coming second term.
30% : Trump, after all, has claimed to have numerous conflicting positions on abortion rights throughout his life.
28% : Just because Trump is publicly distancing himself from abortion does not mean Republicans won't enact a national banAbortion rights initiatives were on the ballot in 10 states on Tuesday, and won in seven of them.
22% : But the impact of a Trump term on American women's access to abortion will be felt long after Trump himself is no longer with us.
21% : Trump is also likely to reverse the Biden administration's guidance on Emtala, the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act, a federal law that requires emergency rooms to provide stabilizing care to all patients facing health crises.

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