The Center for Reproductive Rights, an American organization, warned this Thursday that one of the first policies that Donald Trump could carry out when he takes office is the elimination of abortion pills, which until now can be purchased by mail.
“We hope that the second Trump administration will be faster, better organized and much worse than the first on the issues that concern us,” said Rachana Desai Martin, head of government and foreign relations of the organization, in a virtual meeting with journalists.
The Center for Reproductive Rights, explained its president, Nancy Northup, “is an organization of lawyers and activists working to ensure that reproductive rights are protected in law as fundamental human rights by all governments around the world.”
The organization opted for this measure, as one of the first policies that the new administration can carry out, because the Supreme Court already considered restricting the use of the abortion pill in the United States, although it ended up rejecting it in March of this year. .
Regulatory changes made in 2016 and 2021 by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) made the drug available by mail and prescribed by a health care provider who does not have to be a doctor.
And after the court hearing on mifepristone, a substance used in abortion pills, that remains the case.
During his first term, Trump appointed three of the six justices that make up the conservative majority of the Supreme Court that overturned the protection of the right to abortion at the federal level in June 2022 by annulling the ‘Roe v. Wade‘ ruling.
Since then, each state has the power to apply its own policies in this regard and there are already prohibitions and restrictions in 21 of the 50 states in the country, all of them conservative.
“It’s a lifesaver in post-Roe America,” Martin said.
Although in the election campaign the Republican has assured that he will not impose a national ban, but will let the states choose, Trump has always boasted of being the architect of the elimination of Roe v. Wade.
For this reason, the Center for Reproductive Rights has urged all organizations that work on this matter to do so together to fight against the possible policies of the new Government.
“If a federal abortion ban were passed and the litigation reached the Supreme Court and the Supreme Court found that the law can be upheld, then, unfortunately, that law would prevail over state protection,” lamented Elisabeth Smith, the center’s state policy director.
“We can’t get to that point,” he added.
The organization recalled that although the majority of Americans voted for the Republican candidate, a large part of the amendments that were also voted on that Tuesday in several states of the country to protect the right to abortion were approved.
Although they regretted that many of them are not binding and will depend on who controls Congress and the new presidency, they represent, in their opinion, a majority of Americans in favor of guaranteeing the right to abortion.
