As of midnight, an archaic near-total abortion ban went into effect in Florida. Donald Trump is to blame.
The state now outlaws nearly all abortions after 6 weeks, which is essentially a complete ban since a majority of women don't even know they’re pregnant that early on. If they are fortunate enough to discover the pregnancy and identify potential life-threatening complications before six weeks, they will have mere days to make one of the hardest decisions imaginable.
These abortion bans are unforgivable.
Trump and the GOP are doing irreparable damage by putting women in a spot where they have lost control over the right to keep their bodies from harm.
This ban has nothing to do with medical concerns. It has everything to do with our lawmakers pandering to religious ideologues who fund Republicans. Nothing more.
Trump and his MAGA cult only care about money, power, and controlling women. Most aren’t medical professionals, and they refuse to listen to those who are.
I’ve known a number of GOP Members of Congress who were outspoken against abortion but didn’t actually care about the issue at all. They knew their donors and radical supporters cared, and that’s all that mattered.
Trump’s hypocrisy on abortion rights is staggering. The man-child who says there should be “some form of punishment” for women who have abortions, once hinted that he was a possible donor to Planned Parenthood. He even went on to say that the organization “does some very good work,” and some “wonderful things.” Quite the flip flop.
Trump now likes to use the new catchphrase “states’ rights” as cover for his anti-abortion stance. Putting state rights over women’s autonomy, Trump thinks the states can do whatever they hell they want–unless of course it involves prosecuting and penalizing him for crimes.
Make no mistake: Trump is to blame for every single one of these abortion bans. He takes credit for having “killed Roe” and cleared the way for the draconian abortion restrictions in places like Florida.
There should be no doubt that Trump would sign a national abortion ban if reelected. He may be backtracking on it now because he’s getting pummeled for it in the polls, but if Trump is back in office, he will go right back to pandering to those religious forces who convinced him to ban abortions in the first place.
If we re-elect President Biden and give him a Democratic Congress, he will restore Roe as the law of the land.
Thanks to overwhelming backlash to radical abortion bans like these, Democrats are poised to make major gains across the country this November. Even Florida is now in play as there is a constitutional amendment on the ballot this year that would allow for abortion rights to be restored. That alone makes the state more competitive for Democrats.
This election is literally about life and death for so many Americans. Now is not the time to slow down. Let’s all step up and do everything we can to vote these extreme MAGA Republicans out of power for good.
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Women keep moving backwards in the ripple effects of Trumps presidency. He can’t get in again. Losing Florida would be the ultimate blow for these misogynistic jerks he enabled. It makes me hopeful that you see it as a possibility.
Trump will forever be the destroyer of women’s rights!