Donald Trump’s rise in the 2016 race is a wake-up call for reproductive rights advocates nationwide. Across the campaign trail, Trump has flaunted his dangerous agenda based on racism, misogyny and xenophobia.
Time and again, he has vowed to restrict access to reproductive health care and ban abortion in this country. He’s continually promised to discriminate against immigrants, Muslims, and communities of color. And he wants to take his outrageous policies straight to the White House.
Bottom line: A Trump presidency would be a disaster for women. Here’s where Trump stands on the issues most important to the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, and what’s at stake in November.
Trump Wants to “Defund” Planned Parenthood
Trump has claimed he’d be great for women while in the same breath pledging to block them from accessing care at Planned Parenthood, like birth control, lifesaving cancer screenings, STI testing and treatment, and well-woman exams. What’s more, Trump said he’d rather shut down the government than allow women, men, and young people to access care at Planned Parenthood health centers.
Planned Parenthood health centers are irreplaceable, and they play an outsized role in rural communities, communities of color, and other regions facing health disparities. In fact, an estimated one in five women come to Planned Parenthood in their lifetime. They come to Planned Parenthood for health care –– not to make a political point.
As president, Trump would turn his back on all of these patients and ignore public opinion, which consistently shows strong support for Planned Parenthood.
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Trump Wants to Ban Abortion
Update March 30, 2016:
Donald Trump Calls for Abortion to be Illegal and Punishment for Women Who Have One
Trump has made his stance on abortion very clear: He wants to ban safe and legal abortion, with limited exceptions.
Trump has even said he would appoint “pro-life” judges to the Supreme Court, a move that could wreak further havoc on access to safe and legal abortion. In case you weren’t already scared at the prospect of a Trump presidency, consider this: The Supreme Court currently includes three justices who are hostile to abortion access, and Republican senators are pledging to obstruct the process of nominating a new Supreme Court justice to replace Antonin Scalia (who also was hostile to abortion access).
The next president could get the opportunity to appoint Supreme Court justices. If Trump were to become president and appointed a Supreme Court justice who shares his backward views, the outcome in abortion access cases like Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt could be disastrous.