Mary Ziegler:
Yes, I mean, one of the things I think that’s telling is that the Trump administration hasn’t been particularly vocal about its positions on abortion. It hasn’t been something that President Trump has been foregrounding.
But I think, slowly and without a lot of fanfare, we’re starting to see the Trump administration bringing policy into alignment with the preferences of the anti-abortion movement. And, of course, there are other things we’re waiting to see on that front too, most notably access to mifepristone, which is a drug used in more than half of all abortions in the United States.
This week, the Trump administration asked a judge, Matthew Kacsmaryk, for more time to review the administration’s position on mifepristone in critically important litigation going forward. So I think this is a sign that there’s going to be more to come from the Trump administration in moving policy in a pretty radically or considerably conservative direction when it comes to abortion.
