In response to Donald Trump rolling back efforts to protect emergency health care access for pregnant women, DNC Spokesperson Aida Ross released the following statement: 

“Donald Trump already ‘proudly’ ‘terminated’ Roe v. Wade, and he is the reason women are dying across the country under extreme abortion bans. Now, Trump’s administration is siding with one of the country’s ‘most restrictive’ abortion laws, which makes it difficult for pregnant women to receive treatment in medical emergencies. Trump and his extreme anti-choice allies don’t care about protecting women’s lives — just about forcing women to live under cruel abortion bans nationwide.”

Donald Trump is trying to end the Biden-Harris administration’s efforts to ensure pregnant women can access emergency medical care in the face of extreme abortion bans. 

Politico: “The Trump administration is dropping a yearslong legal battle with Idaho over the right to an abortion in a medical emergency one day ahead of a major hearing — reversing its stance in one of the highest-profile cases it inherited from the Biden administration. …

“The Biden administration’s lawsuit against Idaho — a case the Supreme Court weighed and punted to lower court judges last year, saying it took up the issue prematurely — argued that Idaho’s enforcement of its near-total abortion ban during medical emergencies violated Ronald Reagan-era patient protections known as EMTALA. …

“The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 …. called on President Donald Trump to end all of the Biden administration’s EMTALA investigations into hospitals that have turned pregnant patients away.”

Associated Press: “Idaho has one of the nation’s most restrictive abortion laws. The hospital has previously said the laws forced them to fly women out of state for emergency care. …

“Complaints that pregnant women were turned away from U.S. emergency rooms spiked after the overturning of Roe v. Wade amid questions about what care they could legally provide, federal records showed.”

After laying the groundwork to rip away reproductive freedoms on Day One, Trump is plotting to ban abortion nationwide, gut medication abortion access, and defund Planned Parenthood. 

The New Republic: “Trump Sneaks Dangerous Rights for Fetuses Into Executive Order”

“By describing a fetus as a person from conception, Trump has legitimized fetal personhood. … The legal language employed by fetal personhood also effectively categorizes any person receiving an abortion at any stage as a murderer.”

Daily Beast: “Trump Administration Removes Reproductive Rights Website” 

NOTUS: “Anti-abortion advocates say having allies in the cabinet will set the tone for abortion policies in the administration. …

“Trump’s agency picks could make changes that would have nationwide implications on abortion access.”

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

Trump “proudly” overturned Roe v. Wade and “claimed credit” for extreme abortion bans across the country.

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.”

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

###