Fact: Trump Will Ban Abortion Nationwide
September 10, 2024
FACT: Trump Will Ban Abortion Nationwide, Harris Will Restore the Protections of Roe
Kamala Harris is committed to protecting our fundamental freedoms – and will fight to restore the protections of Roe v. Wade as law of the land if she wins this November. Donald Trump routinely lies about Vice President Harris’ position to distract from his own extreme, unpopular Project 2025 agenda to ban abortion nationwide.
Trump overturned Roe v. Wade, unleashing extreme abortion bans without exceptions and threatening IVF for women and families across the country. He supports Florida’s extreme law that bans abortion before many women know they are pregnant.
Donald Trump’s official RNC platform would wipe out abortion access nationwide and threaten access to IVF. His extreme Project 2025 agenda would do the same.
FACT: Donald Trump has both publicly and privately supported a national abortion ban. Trump’s official Republican platform would ban abortion in states across the country. And Project 2025 has a plan for Trump to ban abortion nationwide without Congress or the courts.
FACT: Trump said there should be “some form of punishment” for women who have an abortion and supports allowing states to prosecute women.
- In a recent interview, Trump deferred to the states on whether a woman from a state with an abortion ban should be punished for having an abortion: “The states are going to make that decision. … The states are going to have to be comfortable or uncomfortable, not me.”
- Trump in 2016: “There has to be some form of punishment [for women who have an abortion].”
FACT: Trump, like his VP pick, has backed abortion bans with no exceptions for rape or incest and bragged about making them possible by overturning Roe.
- Trump: “We broke Roe v. Wade, and we did something that nobody thought was possible: we gave it back to the states, and the states are working very brilliantly … it’s working the way it’s supposed to.”
- Donald Trump called state abortion bans “a beautiful thing to watch.”
FACT: Donald Trump said he was “looking at” restricting access to birth control in a second term. As president, he attacked access to contraception.
- In an interview, Trump admitted he is “looking at” policies restricting access to birth control.
- Trump said he would “terminate” the ACA, which would rip away a nationwide guarantee of coverage for free contraception from 58 million women with private insurance.
- As president, Donald Trump attacked access to contraception, taking steps to decrease access for millions by sabotaging HHS’s family planning grant program for clinics like Planned Parenthood.
FACT: Donald Trump’s official platform would endanger IVF access. As president, he appointed anti-IVF judges to the federal bench. As a candidate, he’s promised to work “side by side” with a group that wants to restrict IVF.
- Donald Trump’s official platform supports fetal personhood through the Constitution’s 14th Amendment, a policy that would “render [IVF] illegal.”
- Trump appointed an anti-IVF judge to a lifetime federal judicial appointment. He even added her to a list of potential Supreme Court picks.
- Trump’s White House and campaign hosted the Alabama Supreme Court chief justice whose ruling effectively banned IVF in the state earlier this year.
- Trump’s campaign refused for more than six months to support protecting IVF.
- Donald Trump has deep ties to the anti-IVF movement.
- Trump’s running mate, JD Vance, voted against IVF protections.
FACT: Donald Trump routinely lies about Vice President Harris and Democrats’ position to distract from his own extreme agenda to ban abortion. Vice President Harris supports making Roe v. Wade the law of the land.
- Donald Trump claimed Democratic states are passing laws to allow executing babies after birth, which CNN affirmed is “false.”
- Trump’s claims that Vice President Harris supports abortion “all the way to the moment of birth” are untrue.
- Vice President Harris is fighting to restore the protections of Roe v. Wade as the law of the land.
FACT: Trump’s claim that “all legal scholars” on both sides wanted Roe overturned is false
- CNN: “Fact Check: Trump makes wildly inaccurate claim that ‘all legal scholars’ on ‘both sides’ wanted Roe overturned.”
- PolitiFact: “Donald Trump said all legal scholars, ‘on both sides,’ wanted Roe v. Wade overturned. That’s wrong.”
- Donald Trump falsely claimed that “all legal scholars, both sides, wanted and in fact demanded” that Roe v. Wade “be ended,” which legal scholars have described as “utter nonsense” and “patently absurd.”
FACT: Voters across party lines oppose the end of Roe and Trump’s extreme abortion policies.
- New York Times/Siena College polls earlier this month showed that a growing share of voters in swing states now say abortion is central to their decision this fall.
- An Associated Press poll found that “support for legal abortion has risen since Supreme Court eliminated protections.”
- CNN reported that “The Supreme Court’s two-year-old decision to overturn Roe v. Wade remains unpopular with a wide majority of Americans … Two-thirds of Americans oppose the high court’s abortion decision, according to the new Marquette Law School poll.”
- A CNN poll found that “nearly two years after the Supreme Court decision that overturned Roe v. Wade, Americans remain broadly opposed to the ruling.”
- A Fox News national survey found that just before the two-year mark since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, “a record number of voters think abortion should be legal, with two-thirds favoring nationwide law guaranteeing access … Fifty-nine percent think abortion should be legal in all or most cases, up from the previous high of 57% in September 2022.”
- Pew Research Center also found that “a majority of Americans continue to express support for abortion access” two years since the Dobbs decision.
