One month before Donald Trump's inauguration on January 20, 2025, the next battle over abortion is already taking shape in the US. It will be a judicial one, pitting pro- and anti-abortion states against each other on the issue of prescribing abortion pills, at the risk of further deepening the divisions created in the country by the Supreme Court decision that ended federal protection for abortion in June 2022.
Conservatives are counting on the support of the 47th president, his vice president, JD Vance, a staunch opponent of abortion and his nominee for the Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. In RFK's talks with senators, who will have to vote on his nomination, the former Democratic lawyer assured them of his "100%" support for whatever President Trump [decides] on abortion, said Alabama Republican Senator Tommy Tuberville on Tuesday, December 17. Tuberville then quickly referenced Trump's "three exceptions" view on the issue (pro-life aside from the exceptions of "rape, incest and protecting the life of the mother"), which Trump stated on Twitter (now X) back in 2019, and again on his Truth Social page on October 1, though it is unclear what Trump's exact position is currently.
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