Donald Trump nominated the Supreme Court justices who ensured the overturning of Roe v. Wade, even though the actual overturning didn’t happen until his time out of office. However, Trump, especially during his campaign in 2024, sometimes fell short of advocating for everything the anti-abortion movement wanted, including any push for a nationwide ban on abortion.
Now, a leading anti-abortion group is complaining about the president’s second-term posture.
“Trump is the problem. The president is the problem,” Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, told the Wall Street Journal this week, in a story with the headline “The Anti-Abortion Movement is Turning on Trump.”
The issue is the availability of a certain abortion pill, Mifepristone. A court this week temporarily banned its sale, but the ban was quickly reversed, with the Supreme Court allowing the pill to be sold again.
According to PBS NewsHour and AP — anti-abortion advocate Marjorie Dannenfelser of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America publicly criticized the Trump administration on this, saying “It’s shameful that the Trump administration’s inaction has forced pro-life states to take their…
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“The ubiquity of abortion pills during the second Trump Administration has led anti-abortion advocates to decry the president’s appointees, including Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary, and promise cash and political firepower to politicians who oppose the drugs,” the Journal reported this week.
Roe v. Wade’s reversal has left abortion illegal in some states, legal in others, and restricted in some others, something the leaders of the anti-abortion movement find is not good enough for them.
“Although Trump himself has been quiet on abortion, the attacks on care have continued. Most recently, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals — an uber conservative court with many far-right judges appointed by Trump — temporarily banned the mailing of mifepristone, the most sweeping blow to abortion access since the fall of Roe. The Supreme Court temporarily blocked the ban, reinstating mail access to mifepristone, but the case is ongoing,” HuffPost reported this week.
