The Trump administration "could do a lot to limit or eliminate access to abortion without any act of Congress," Kate Shaw said.
Though just a few days since the election, the country's leading pro-life activist groups are already shifting from celebrating former President Donald Trump’s victory to drawing up plans for his second term.
The abortion rights movement won in many states — even some that voted for Donald Trump. Where does it go from here?
Despite a strong showing of support for abortion rights on Election Day, the abortion access landscape in the United States won’t change immediately. And under President Donald Trump’s second term, it will remain heavily fragmented — and vulnerable to future restriction.
Voters across seven states approved ballot measures to safeguard abortion rights through their state constitutions, a result that could soon bolster reproductive health care for more than 2 million American women.
Republicans, eyeing such a close result, will try to overturn the state’s new right to abortion. It’s just a question of how.
Voters in 7 out of 10 states, including several red states, approved measures to protect abortion rights during the 2024 presidential election.
Americans voted to protect abortion access in seven states, but support for those measures outpaced support for Kamala Harris, who made abortion rights central to her campaign.
In the days after the election, reproductive rights advocates considered next steps. Strategy discussions included everything from legislative efforts, to legal options, to rallying around
Abortion rights got 57% support in Florida. So why did it fail? Because big business and politicians have gamed the whole amendment process, writes columnist Scott Maxwell.
As national Republicans celebrated the election of Donald Trump as president last week, the progressives and Democrats who lead Colorado and shape its policies wondered — and began planning for — what a second Trump administration would mean for the steady-blue Centennial State.