A Second Trump Term Could Lead to a ‘Backdoor Federal Abortion Ban’

特朗普的第二个任期可能会导致“后门联邦堕胎禁令”

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2024-10-30

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With less than a week to go until the most contested election in generations, the law professor Mary Ziegler considers what a second term for Donald Trump would mean for abortion rights. In this audio essay, she argues that while the former president may seem indifferent on the campaign trail to tightening abortion laws, there is a real possibility that if re-elected he will seek to appease his base by using his executive power to ban abortions nationwide.
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  • My name's Mary Ziegler.

  • I'm a law professor and legal historian.

  • I've written six books on struggles over reproduction and abortion in the United States.

  • And I think we're really at a critical juncture when it comes to the politics of abortion rights today.

  • This election is the most consequential in the past 50 years, because before this, when a Republican was in office, there were other constraints on what Republicans could do in terms of advancing national restrictions or bans through executive power.

  • And those constraints are largely gone because Roe v.

  • Wade is no more.

  • So quite simply, we haven't had a precedent for how much a Republican can push to limit access in progressive as well as conservative states.

  • We're living in an unprecedented moment, or at least one we haven't experienced in a half century.

  • Trump on the campaign trail has sounded reluctant to embrace a broad abortion ban.

  • Now I happen to be for the exceptions, like Ronald Reagan with the life of the mother, rape, incest.

  • At various points, he's promised that he'll forge a deal on abortion that both Democrats and Republicans will love without really detailing what's such a deal would involve.