As Iowa’s draconian six week abortion ban — made possible by Donald Trump — goes into effect today, the Trump-Vance ticket has a Project 2025 agenda that includes a national abortion ban. In response, DNC Spokesperson Aida Ross released the following statement: 

“Anti-choice extremists like Donald Trump and JD Vance are the reason why cruel abortion bans are ripping away women’s rights across the country — including the draconian ban going into effect in Iowa today. Now, as even more women will be denied necessary reproductive care, Trump and Vance have a dangerous Project 2025 agenda to ban abortion nationwide, with or without Congress. Vance himself has made it clear that he wants abortion ‘illegal nationally’ while attacking exceptions for rape and incest. These extreme bans are as horrifying as they are unpopular, and the American people are ready to stop the Trump-Vance ticket’s all-out assault on our basic rights this November.” 

Donald Trump “proudly” overturned Roe v. Wade and paved the way for extreme abortion bans to take effect in Iowa and across the country — something his extreme anti-choice running mate JD Vance has celebrated.

Reuters: “Iowa, like other Republican-controlled states, moved to ban abortion after the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2022 ruling overturning Roe v. Wade.”

Trump: “I was proudly the person responsible for the ending of … Roe v. Wade.”

Trump: “For 54 years they were trying to get Roe v. Wade terminated, and I did it, and I’m proud to have done it. … Nobody else was going to get that done but me, and we did it, and we did something that was a miracle.”

Trump: “After 50 years of failure, with nobody coming even close, I was able to kill Roe v. Wade…”

Vance: “I think that what I really think on – so first of all, the Dobbs decision, everybody knows, overruled Roe v. Wade – I think that was the right decision.”

Rolling Stone: “Trump Claims Credit for All Abortion Bans”

Trump campaign radio ad: “And Trump nominated conservative judges, leading to Roe v. Wade being overturned.”

Trump celebrated states enacting draconian abortion bans across the country as “working very brilliantly” and said he’d allow states to punish women who get an abortion.

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 … But they’re working, and it’s working the way it’s supposed to.”

Trump: “My view is now that we have abortion where everybody wanted it from a legal standpoint. The states will determine by vote or legislation or perhaps both and whatever they decide must be the law of the land, and in this case, the law of the state.” 

Interviewer: “Are you comfortable if states decide to punish women who access abortions after the procedure is banned?” 

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Trump: “Again, that’s going to be—I don’t have to be comfortable or uncomfortable. The states are going to make that decision. The states are going to have to be comfortable or uncomfortable, not me.”

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Interviewer: “Prosecuting women for getting abortions after the ban. But are you comfortable with it?” 

Trump: “The states are going to say. It’s irrelevant whether I’m comfortable or not. It’s totally irrelevant, because the states are going to make those decisions.” 

Vance praised extreme abortion bans — including six-week bans like Iowa’s and those without rape or incest exceptions.

NBC News: “Vance pointed to Ohio’s so-called heartbeat bill, which took effect hours after the Supreme Court overturned the landmark Roe v. Wade decision. The law bans abortions after the first fetal heartbeat is detected, which can be as early as six weeks into a pregnancy. 

“‘I think that’s a good bill,’ Vance said. ‘Florida has gone a slightly different direction. Virginia has gone a slightly different direction. When we’re figuring this new legal regime out, I think it makes sense right now to let the states decide this stuff. And right now, states are moving into pro-life direction. I think that’s a good thing.’”

Cincinnati Enquirer: “Dubbed the ‘heartbeat bill,’ the [Ohio abortion ban] criminalizes all abortions performed after the detection of fetal cardiac activity, which is about six weeks into a pregnancy… providers could face fifth-degree felony charges and up to one year in prison. The law has an exception to save the life of a patient but no exceptions for rape or incest.”

The Independent: “JD Vance calls pregnancy from rape and incest ‘inconvenient’ as he backs Texas abortion law”

“The question was prompted by the new, restrictive abortion law in Texas that bans the procedure after six weeks, at a time when most women don’t know they’re pregnant. The law is likely to stop up to 90 per cent of abortions and doesn’t make exceptions for rape or incest. Mr Vance defended the law, saying that ‘in Texas, they’re trying to make it easier for babies to be born.’”

Trump and Vance’s Project 2025 agenda includes a national abortion ban. Trump once even left the door open for six-week bans like Iowa’s.

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.” 

Trump on if he would sign a six-week national abortion ban: “I’m looking at all options.”

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

“During a podcast interview in January 2022, then-candidate JD Vance said he ‘certainly would like abortion to be illegal nationally’ and was ‘sympathetic’ to the view that a national ban was necessary to stop women from traveling across states to obtain an abortion.”

Newsweek: “J.D. Vance Backs ‘National Standard’ for Abortions”

Daily Beast: “J.D. Vance suggested he would support prohibiting abortion even in cases of rape and incest—and dismissed those catalysts as ‘inconvenient.’”

New Republic: “On January 20, 2025, conservatives plan to resurrect a 150-year-old defunct law to ban abortion across the nation. This is not a secret plan—far from it. It’s part of the 180-Day Playbook produced by Project 2025, detailing priorities for an incoming conservative president on day one. These 900 pages lay out a Christian nationalist vision of the United States, one in which married heterosexuality is the only valid form of sexual expression and identity; all pregnancies would be carried to term, even if that requires coercion or death; and transgender and gender-nonconforming people do not exist…

“The playbook says the president should enforce a 150-year-old law, the Comstock Act, which right-wing groups see as a way to ban abortion nationally because it outlaws the use of the mail for the purposes of sending or receiving any object that could be used for an abortion.”

Vance: “I’ve reviewed a lot of [Project 2025]. There are some good ideas in there.”

Axios: “[Project 2025] is undeniably a Trump-driven operation. The biggest tell: Johnny McEntee — one of Trump’s closest White House aides, and his most fervent internal loyalty enforcer — is a senior adviser to Project 2025. One of the most powerful architects is Stephen Miller, a top West Wing adviser for the Trump administration.”

New York Times: “Roberts told me that he views Heritage’s role today as ‘institutionalizing Trumpism.’ This includes leading Project 2025, a transition blueprint that outlines a plan to consolidate power in the executive branch, dismantle federal agencies and recruit and vet government employees to free the next Republican president from a system that Roberts views as stacked against conservative power. The lesson of Trump’s first year in office, Roberts told me, is that ‘the Trump administration … simply got a slow start. And Heritage and our allies in Project 2025 believe that must never be repeated.’”

REALITY CHECK: Attacks on reproductive rights, like Trump and Vance’s anti-choice Project 2025 agenda to rip away reproductive freedoms, are wildly unpopular.

USA Today: “Americans overwhelmingly oppose the next goal of many anti-abortion activists, to enact a federal law banning abortion nationwide. By 80%-14%, those surveyed opposed that idea, including 65% of Republicans and 83% of independents.”

Axios: “Record share of U.S. voters back abortion rights and will vote on it: Gallup”

NBC News: “Abortion rights have won in every election since Roe v. Wade was overturned”

Axios: “Most Americans support abortion access one year after Roe v. Wade: poll”

CNN Poll: “About two-thirds (65%) oppose the 2022 Supreme Court decision, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, and 34% approve, numbers that have remained effectively unchanged in CNN’s polling across the nearly two years since the ruling. Those who strongly disapprove of the decision continue to outnumber those who strongly approve by a more than 2-to-1 margin.

“A 69% majority who disapprove of overturning Roe, including 82% of those who strongly disapprove, say that federal politicians should work to pass laws ensuring national abortion access.”

Axios: “There’s widespread support for letting women obtain drugs for medication abortion from their doctor or a clinic, with 72% supporting — including half of Republicans.”