The Trump administration is intentionally slow-rolling efforts to restrict abortion pill access until after the midterms. Once they’re over, “the gloves will be off,” according to one anti-abortion advocate who spoke with The Washington Sun.
US Attorney General Todd Blanche said during his July confirmation hearing that rules allowing abortion pills to be shipped nationwide were “wrong” and that he’d seek to review them. He’s also reportedly assured faith leaders he would work to ban abortion “in every single state.”
But according to a Friday report from the Sun, White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles has intervened to limit the potential political fallout of new sweeping restrictions on a method that accounts for nearly two-thirds of all abortions in the US.
They spent about 50 years fighting against Roe and are not about to give up now. The 30% or so are the people that were gleeful about trigger laws in various states. They are the types that started setting up bounties for people to sue women that were traveling to other states to exercise their rights. They are the kinds of people that want to track pregnant women taking flights, etc…