22 states already have Trump abortion bans

Donald Trump made it clear Tuesday night that he owns the 22 extreme abortion bans throughout the country that have left women in perilous medical emergencies and facing mounting barriers to accessing the health care they need. He’s not done yet – when asked multiple times on the debate stage, Trump refused to commit to vetoing a national abortion ban as president. And his running mate, JD Vance, knows that Trump would sign one into law – even if Trump won’t admit it on the debate stage. Vice President Harris made it clear: “If Donald Trump were to be reelected, he will sign a national abortion ban.” Trump can evade, but he intends to ban abortion nationwide, just as he intends to vote to maintain Florida’s extreme abortion ban. 

In response to Trump’s refusal to denounce a nationwide abortion ban, DNC Spokesperson Maddy Mundy issued the following statement: 

“Tuesday night, Americans heard two starkly different visions for America. Vice President Kamala Harris’ vision will chart a new way forward and protect the freedoms – including reproductive freedoms – of every American. In contrast, Donald Trump peddled a vision that would use his Project 2025 agenda to build on his dangerous repeal of Roe v. Wade. Voters heard Trump again brag about ripping away federal reproductive protections from Americans, while refusing to commit to vetoing an extreme national abortion ban if he reaches the White House. Twenty-two states have Trump abortion bans in effect, and Trump’s Project 2025 agenda will ban abortion nationwide – forcing women across the country to experience the anti-freedom reality Trump made possible in these states since his overturn of Roe. Tuesday night, Trump reaffirmed he is proud of his abortion bans. There is only one candidate in this race who is a clear and vocal champion of women’s reproductive rights: Vice President Harris. As president, she will restore and protect women’s freedoms and their right to make their own personal health care decisions.” 

In Tuesday’s debate, Donald Trump refused to commit to vetoing a nationwide abortion ban if elected president. 

Wall Street Journal: “Trump Won’t Say Whether He Would Veto a National Abortion Ban”

The Hill: “Trump refuses to say he would veto a national abortion ban”

HuffPost: “Trump Refuses To Answer Whether He’d Veto A National Abortion Ban”

That’s because Trump and Vance’s Project 2025 agenda would rip away Americans’ basic freedoms by banning abortion nationwide and punishing women.

The Guardian: “Project 2025 takes direct aim at abortion pills, indicates that fetuses should have legal rights, and seeks to expand ‘surveillance’ of abortion while eliminating government support for the procedure.”

Rolling Stone: “Inside the MAGA Plan to Attack Birth Control, Surveil Women and Ban the Abortion Pill”

“GOP operatives have already crafted an expansive blueprint, 887 pages long, laying out in painstaking detail how they intend to govern, including plans to leverage virtually every arm, tool and agency of the federal government to attack abortion access.”

Politico: “As president, Trump enacted several policies that made it more difficult for people, particularly the working class and the poor, to obtain contraception … Conservative allies want to reimpose those policies and go further if he wins in November. Their ‘Project 2025’ blueprint includes proposals to require coverage of natural family planning methods and remove requirements that insurance cover certain emergency contraception.”

Rolling Stone: “Trump Wants to Ban Abortion Nationwide: Report”

Trump: “There of course remains a vital role for the federal government in protecting unborn life. And it’s very important.” 

Forbes: “JD Vance And Project 2025 Want To Use This 19th Century Law To Ban Abortion—Without Congress”

Washington Post: “Vance urged DOJ to enforce Comstock Act, crack down on abortion pills”

Vox: “Vance is on record supporting these [Project 2025] ideas. Last year, he signed a letter demanding that the Justice Department prosecute physicians and pharmacists ‘who break the Federal mail-order abortion laws.’”

CNN: “JD Vance said in 2022 he ‘would like abortion to be illegal nationally’”

Trump’s Project 2025 agenda would even allow states to monitor women’s pregnancies.

HuffPost: “There is evidence that, if elected, Trump and his vice presidential pick, Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), would permit or even encourage the type of Orwellian surveillance described in Project 2025. For one, Trump has already expressed clear disinterest in preventing conservative states from enacting draconian policies on abortion and pregnancy.”

Rolling Stone: “Elsewhere, [Project 2025 author Roger] Severino complains that the CDC’s ‘abortion surveillance’ system is ‘woefully inadequate,’ and proposes turning the agency into a kind of snitch network that would collect data about who had abortions and where — and punish any states that refuse to share that information. ‘Because liberal states have now become sanctuaries for abortion tourism, HHS should use every available tool, including the cutting of funds, to ensure that every state reports exactly how many abortions take place within its borders, at what gestational age of the child, for what reason, the mother’s state of residence, and by what method,’ Severino writes.”

Donald Trump called the restrictive and cruel patchwork of abortion bans in effect across the country “a beautiful thing to watch.”

The Hill: “Former President Trump on Wednesday said it was ‘a beautiful thing to watch’ as individual states passed patchwork abortion laws, some more restrictive than others, and suggested it could unify the country even as Democrats use the issue to drive turnout in elections.”

“Reproductive rights have been front and center politically in the two years since the conservative Supreme Court majority ended Roe v. Wade, with some states enshrining abortion rights and others enacting restrictive laws that effectively ban the procedure.”

“‘And it’s taken it off the shoulders of the federal government … The people are deciding. And in many ways, it’s a beautiful thing to watch.’

“Trump both took credit for ending Roe v. Wade through the appointment of three conservative justices to the Supreme Court and attacked Democrats as ‘the radicals’ on the issue of abortion for not supporting limits on late-term abortions.

“‘The states are all deciding right now. And I think it’s working the way that people wanted it to work,’ Trump said. ‘And it’s going to bring the country together on an issue that was very, very bad.’”