Multiple news outlets are reporting that acting Attorney General Todd Blanche indicated in a call to faith leaders that abortion restrictions are coming soon and will be “permanent.”
Audio of the July 30 call hosted by the White House Faith Office was initially posted by the Christian organization Intercessors for America and taken down several days later, according to the Catholic Herald, but at least some of it was archived.
“If states have said, ‘We are going to protect the unborn and we’re going to protect every life from the moment of conception,’ we’re putting practices and policies in place so that other states and other organizations can’t attack that,” Blanche said on the call. “They can’t do things like they’re doing with mailing in mail-order drugs.”
Several states that have pro-life protections in place are actively fighting to keep mail-order abortion drugs out of their states, and Texas and Louisiana have even sued individual practitioners out-of-state for sending the pills over the border.
Blanche said that the DOJ is working with the FDA, HHS, the White House, and President Trump’s team to “get permanent solutions so that the Dobbs decision becomes permanent in every state.” In 2022, the US Supreme Court case Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization successfully overturned Roe v. Wade.
Trump's Acting AG Todd Blanche plans to outlaw abortion nationwide:
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He also acknowledged that 19 months have passed since Trump’s inauguration, but said the process takes time. “We don’t have complete victory yet, but we will have victory and victory will be soon and it will be permanent.”
The thirteen states of Alabama, Arkansas, Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, and West Virginia have laws in place that mostly ban chemical abortion.
Additionally, several states have various heartbeat bills in place that restrict abortion after six weeks, and the abortion pill is generally used any time during the first trimester.
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