Women may want to start stockpiling abortion pills and contraception ahead of a potential Trump re-election in November, activists say.
  • Donald Trump’s views on abortion are muddled at best and threatening at worst.
  • GOP lawmakers are targeting access to IVF, IUDs, birth control pills, and emergency contraception.
  • So some women are stockpiling abortion pills and contraception, activists say.

Donald Trump’s views on a national abortion ban have not exactly been transparent.

In March, the repeat presidential candidate seemed to support the idea: “The number of weeks now, people are agreeing on 15, and I’m thinking in terms of that, and it’ll come out to something that’s very reasonable,” he said during an interview."

Previously, he floated a 16-week ban because he liked the roundness of the number.

But then, last week, after Arizona’s Supreme Court revived a near-total abortion ban dating back to 1864, Trump said the court had gone too far and that he wouldn’t sign a national abortion ban if it came across his desk. “It’s all about state’s rights, and it will be straightened out,” he said after the ruling.

The flip-flopping probably has something to do with the line Trump is trying to walk between many within his base who support a national ban on abortion and the women voters he’ll need to show up for him on election day if he wants to defeat President Joe Biden in November.

  • Cat without eyebrows @lemmy.world
    11·
    8 months ago

    The fact that you call them ‘females’ might suggest they wouldn’t discuss it around you. I can assure you the women in my circles are worried sick

    • ParabolicMotion@lemmy.world
      110·
      8 months ago

      Well, I’m not worried sick. Ectopic pregnancy is very rare. If I were to have one of those, I’d be in the ER by the time I knew of it, anyway, and then the surgeons would have to sew the fallopian tube back together once the embryo ruptured through it. They can’t just leave the embryo in there. California already does D&C on mothers who are carrying a dead fetus. Anything other than that will become a baby that will be born in nine months. Not everyone agrees with me, but I’d rather wait and see what comes of that. Then again, I’m 35, and I’m probably done having babies. Maybe the women around you are really young and haven’t had children yet.