Don't Panic: Organizers Weigh In on Defending Reproductive Justice From the GOP

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : Thomas also stressed the value of being publicly pro-abortion in daily life and "fighting back against anti-abortion stigma that is ultimately rooted in the violent systems of white supremacy and the patriarchy.
45% : They point to the possibility of the federal government enacting a national abortion ban by passing a federal limit on abortion after a certain gestational stage, and using the Comstock Act to criminalize both the individuals accessing abortion pills through the mail as well as the networks supporting them.
44% : Reproductive rights organizations largely expect Trump, the judicial branch and the next Congress to work in tandem to enact policy changes that increase the already significant barriers to accessing reproductive health care.
44% : "Most of my work will remain the same because abortion has been inaccessible under every administration in my lifetime," although she also noted that a second Trump administration will be an "entirely different beast than a centrist administration" led by Democrats.
34% : In his first term, Trump nominated three of the six Supreme Court judges who decided Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, the case that overturned federal legal protections for abortion in 2022.
15% : Trump himself and Vice President-elect J.D. Vance have both used intentionally vague language and mixed messaging to obscure their more hardline positions on abortion access.

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