The Looming Nightmare for Women's Health Under Trump
BY NINA BURLEIGH ON 12/29/16 AT 11:46 AM
Donald Trump’s victory in the recent presidential election has been attributed to the many angry, underemployed whites and other voters who long for the days when America was, supposedly, greater than it is now. But he also owes his win to another, much smaller group—a fierce, single-issue cult that has been trying for decades, with increasing success, to limit women’s access to contraception and abortion.
Polls have consistently shown that a majority of Americans are pro-choice, but Trump and the Republican-controlled Congress now have the power to enable anti-choice states to completely cut off women’s access to abortion, and to apply the power of the federal government to restrict women’s access to contraceptives and low-cost care by shutting down Planned Parenthood clinics, and stacking lower courts and the Supreme Court with judges whose rulings will affect American women of childbearing age for a generation to come.
Based on his promises and the records of his appointees, Trump will enter the White House one day before the 44th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade ruling as possibly the most anti-choice president in 50 years. Meanwhile, the surge of Google searches for DIY abortions indicate that American women in many states are already back in the age of the coat-hanger. Several state legislatures are poised to ban abortion, even in the case of rape and incest, and various bills targeting doctors and researchers are moving through Congress.
Ilyse Hogue, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, spoke with Newsweek about what’s at stake with this new administration, and what American women can do to prepare.
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