As the Trump-Vance ticket continues to push an anti-choice Project 2025 agenda, DNC spokesperson Kenia Guerrero released the following statement:  

“Trump repeatedly brags about overturning Roe v. Wade and ripping away women’s reproductive freedom — even as women across the country are dying under draconian abortion bans that he made possible. The Latino community understands the dangers that the Trump-Vance Project 2025 agenda poses as it plans to rip away Americans’ basic freedoms by banning abortion nationwide, cut off access to abortion medication, and even punish women. Latinas are disproportionately impacted by the Trump abortion bans across the country and our community knows the importance of freedom and autonomy over our own bodies. That’s why Latinas strongly support access to reproductive care. Latinas will defeat Donald Trump and his attacks on reproductive health care and elect the only ticket in this race that trusts women to make decisions about their own bodies: Vice President Harris and Governor Walz.” 

Trump refused to rule out signing a dangerous national abortion ban, after previously expressing support, and said he supports allowing states to prosecute women who get an abortion.

New York Times: “Trump refused to commit to vetoing a national abortion ban.”

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

Time: “So just to be clear, then: You won’t commit to vetoing the bill if there’s federal restrictions—federal abortion restrictions?”

Trump: “I won’t have to commit to it.”

Time: “Would you veto [the Life at Conception Act]?” 

Trump: “I don’t have to do anything about vetoes, because we now have it back in the states.” 

Time: “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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Time: “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.” 

Project 2025 calls for the FDA to reverse its approval of mifepristone and further cut off access to reproductive care – at a time when Latinas are already facing racial health disparities and are already disproportionately impacted by abortion bans across the nation.

Project 2025: “FDA should… Reverse its approval of chemical abortion drugs because the politicized approval process was illegal from the start. … Now that the Supreme Court has acknowledged that the Constitution contains no right to an abortion, the FDA is ethically and legally obliged to revisit and withdraw its initial approval, which was premised on pregnancy being an ‘illness’ and abortion being ‘therapeutically’ effective at treating this ‘illness.’ The FDA is statutorily charged with guaranteeing the safety and efficacy of drugs and therefore should withdraw this drug that is proven to be dangerous to women and by definition fatally unsafe for unborn children.”

Rolling Stone: “Project 2025 calls for using every governmental lever possible to torch access to abortion and restrict reproductive health care. The plan would rescind the FDA’s approval for commonly used abortion medication like mifepristone, or otherwise restrict its use; limit access to emergency contraceptive options such as the morning-after pills and IUD. […] Roger Severino, who served as the head of the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Civil Rights under Trump, wrote in the chapter on the HHS that “the FDA is ethically and legally obliged to revisit and withdraw its initial approval” of mifepristone and that abortion pills are “the single greatest threat to unborn children.”

CBS: “Other proposed actions targeting medication abortion include reinstating more stringent rules for mifepristone’s use, which would permit it to be taken up to seven weeks into a pregnancy, instead of the current 10 weeks, and requiring it to be dispensed in-person instead of through the mail.”

Associated Press: “Women of color advocating for abortion access pointed out that restricting access to mifepristone could worsen racial health disparities. They argue that individuals of color and pregnant people from marginalized communities are more likely to face systemic barriers that limit their access to abortion and other reproductive health care. As a result, they rely on methods like medication abortion.”

Intersections of Our Lives: “Access to birth control is the highest priority when it comes to reproductive health, with 78% of Latina/x women saying it is extremely or very important. 74% identified both maternal mortality for women of color and abortion legality, affordability, and access as extremely or very important. A strong majority (73%) of Latina/x women overall support abortion rights. While there is some variation in views on abortion across ethnicities, the majority supports abortion rights overall.”

Maryland Reporter: “Mifepristone is often used for miscarriage management, which affects up to 30% of all pregnancies. Latinas, compared to other racial and ethnic groups, have many of the risk factors associated with miscarriage, including gestational hypertension, obesity, and untreated kidney failure.” 

Project 2025 also calls for ending federal funding for Planned Parenthood and other organizations that provide a range of reproductive health services, further increasing barriers that Latinas already face in accessing care due to financial barriers and challenges in accessing culturally competent care.

NBC News: “More than 3 million Latinas in states where abortion is becoming increasing inaccessible were “economically insecure” or living in families below 200% of the federal poverty line, according to the report.”

National Partnership for Women & Families: “More than 3 million Latinas living in these states are economically insecure. Women with low incomes are especially impacted by state bans as they are more likely to lack access to the necessary funds to travel to another state for abortion care. Furthermore, women who are denied abortion care are significantly more likely to be pushed deeper into poverty as a result.

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“More than 1 million Latinas who live in states that have or are likely to ban abortions report not speaking English at all or not speaking it well. This language barrier creates substantial challenges to accessing and receiving culturally competent abortion care.”

Latinas are already disproportionately suffering the impact of Trump’s extreme abortion bans, especially Latinas concentrated in Texas, Florida, and Arizona.

NBC News: “Latinas Remain The Largest Group Of Women Of Color In The Nation Impacted By Current Or Likely Abortion Bans.”

“Close to 6.7 million Latinas (43% of all Latinas ages 15-49) live in 26 states that have banned or are likely to ban abortions.”

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“Three-quarters of the Latinas who live in states with abortion bans or restrictions are concentrated in Texas, Florida, and Arizona, according to the

report. They make up almost one-third of all Latinas of reproductive age in the nation. Texas, where abortions are banned, is home to 2.9 million Latinas of reproductive age. Florida and Arizona, where abortions are restricted, are home to 1.4 million and 585,600 Latinas of reproductive age, respectively.”

National Partnership for Women & Families: “Latinas of all racial groups are impacted by the Dobbs ruling, including:

108,900 Black Latinas

75,300 Native Latinas

20,500 Asian American, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander Latinas

1.3 million Latinas who identify as another race; and

1.5 million multiracial Latinas.”

Trump’s assault on reproductive freedom is a major electoral liability for him with Latino voters, who care deeply about access to abortion and list it as one of their top priorities across the country.

Associated Press: “Around 6 in 10 Hispanic Protestants and about two-thirds of Hispanic Catholics say abortion should be legal in all or most cases. A similar share think Congress should pass a law guaranteeing access to legal abortions nationwide.”

NBC News: “Latinos consistently say the economy and abortion are top issues”

NBC News: “Abortion, gun control were top issues driving young Latinos to vote”

Washington Post: “Politicians assumed most Latinos were anti-abortion. They were wrong.”

In Nevada: “81 percent of Nevada Latino voters think abortion should be legal, personal beliefs aside”

In Arizona: “A whopping 80% of Arizona Latinos support keeping abortion legal, regardless of their personal beliefs”

In Florida: “70% of Florida Hispanics oppose making abortion illegal”

In Georgia: “Abortion ranks as top issue among Georgia Latinos, poll finds”

In Pennsylvania: “Abortion has become more salient, and 73% of Latino voters in Pennsylvania believe it should remain legal, no matter what their own personal beliefs on the issue.”