Thought I’d heard everything. The other day saw that a judge came out against “abortion trafficking” which essentially means if a woman, who is presumed to be a full citizen who can, er, go from ONE STATE TO ANOTHER to pursue a legal abortion, listens to or discusses abortion options, it would be against the law in Tennessee. Judge said no.
The problem, though, is that where for many years ALL women had rights to abortion, now, due to Trump abortion bans, states can decide whether or not to try to punish women and limit their rights to decide their own choices. Trump caused this and takes credit for it, which is one reason why he should never again (or any Republican that agrees with this) take office.
Here’s Newsmax asking weirdo Jason Miller about monitoring women’s pregnancies (Video)
During a Wednesday Newsmax interview, the conservative interviewer asked, “[Trump] wouldn’t support monitoring pregnancies even if a state decided to do that?”
Miller replied, “Well, he’s made it very clear that he’s not gonna go and weigh in and try to push various states in how they want to go and set up their particular rules and restrictions. That’s gonna be up to the states.”
Remember this? Alarm Bells Over JD Vance’s Support for Tracking Women Who Have Abortions
Think Big Government getting into your private business is a joke? Nope. Ken Paxton, here in Texas, sued the Biden Administration because he WANTS to get HIPAA information about women who travel out of state to get abortions.
And (this cannot be more creepy. Why would ANY woman vote for a Republican?
Texas filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration to block a federal rule that shields the medical records of women from criminal investigations if they cross state lines to seek abortion where it is legal.
The lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services seeks to overturn a regulation finalized in April.
In the suit filed Wednesday in Lubbock, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton accused the federal government of attempting to “undermine” the state’s law enforcement capabilities. It appears to be the first legal challenge from a state with an abortion ban that took effect after the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2022 ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade and ended the nationwide right to abortion.
“With this rule, the Biden Administration makes a backdoor attempt at weakening Texas’s laws by undermining state law enforcement investigations that implicate medical procedures,” Paxton said in a news release.
The rule essentially prohibits state or local officials from gathering medical records related to reproductive health care for a civil, criminal or administrative investigation from providers or health insurers in a state where abortion remains legal. It is intended to protect women who live in states where abortion is illegal.
More on Trump and Vance and surveilling women’s health records
Their latest line of attack links Trump and Vance’s previous comments and policy stances with proposals by Project 2025 to allow the government to track reproductive health care and threaten states that allow abortions with federal funding cuts to provide data on women seeking abortions.
While Trump has waffled during the presidential campaign on supporting a national abortion ban, he proudly boasts of appointing three of the Supreme Court justices who ended the five-decade precedent of Roe v. Wade in 2022 and has said he wouldn’t oppose states who want to monitor pregnancies and prosecute women and doctors for abortions.
Vance, on the other hand, has long supported a national abortion ban, voiced support for using the federal government to prevent women from crossing state lines for abortion care and signed a letter, with several other Republican lawmakers, opposing the Biden administration’s efforts to protect women’s private medical records from being shared with law enforcement.
“Because of Trump, prosecutors looking to enforce draconian anti-abortion laws in the states are now free to go after reproductive health data in mobile apps,” Democratic National Committee press secretary Emilia Rowland said in a statement, citing reporting that there are few safeguards preventing prosecutors from acquiring digital health data stored on personal mobile apps, including widely used period-tracking apps.
“But Trump and Vance’s Project 2025 agenda would go even further — calling for every abortion, miscarriage, stillbirth, and incidental pregnancy loss from medical treatments like chemo to be reported to the federal government under a Trump administration, tearing away health data privacy protections under HIPAA, and allowing states to surveil patients and doctors, monitor pregnancies, restrict women’s freedom to travel for abortion care, and ultimately use health data against patients and providers in court,” Rowland continued. “This isn’t about policy, it’s about control.”
The Trump-Vance campaign did not immediately return a request for comment.
For his part, Trump said in a TIME magazine interview published in April that he would defer to individual states if they wanted to monitor women’s pregnancies and prosecute them if they get abortions.
“It’s irrelevant whether I’m comfortable or not. It’s totally irrelevant, because the states are going to make those decisions,” Trump said when asked if he would be comfortable with states criminally charging women for getting abortions. “And by the way, Texas is going to be different than Ohio. And Ohio is going to be different than Michigan.”
“I think they might do that,” he said of states monitoring women’s pregnancies. “It’s all about the states, it’s about state rights. States’ rights. States are going to make their own determination.”
Vance has a more explicit history of supporting the expansion of government surveillance of women’s reproductive health care. Just weeks after arriving in Washington in January 2023, he cosponsored legislation that would hold Medicaid funding for family planning services hostage until states provided abortion data so the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention could “maintain a surveillance system to collect aggregate data in a standardized format on abortions in the United States,” including the gestational age of the fetus, maternal race and ethnicity, abortion type, maternal marital status and the previous pregnancies of the mother, including the number of previous abortions.
What Project 2025 actually says about birth control is alarming From Heritage Foundation as well
“It seems to me that a good place to start would be a feminist movement against the pill, & for… returning the consequentiality to sex.” Conservatives have to lead the way in restoring sex to its true purpose, & ending recreational sex & senseless use of birth control pills.
Remember this re: birth control 3 months ago? Republicans blocked a bill “Right to Contraception” President Joe Biden’s statement
