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 Make sure you understand what you are voting for.  Your rights to your body are done if Trump gets elected.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/17/us/politics/trump-allies-abortion-restrictions.html

Behind the scenes, specific anti-abortion plans being proposed by Mr. Trump’s allies [b]are sweeping and legally sophisticated.[/b] Some of their proposals would rely on enforcing the Comstock Act, a long-dormant law from 1873, to [b]criminalize the shipping of any materials used in an abortion — including abortion pills, which account for the majority of abortions in America.[/b]

[b]“We don’t need a federal ban when we have Comstock on the books,”[/b] said Jonathan F. Mitchell, the legal force behind a 2021 Texas law that found a way to effectively ban abortion in the state before Roe v. Wade was overturned. “There’s a smorgasbord of options.”[/quote]

Didn't he tell you in the first presidential debate that he's fine with leaving it up to the states?[/quote]

First, Trump is a liar.

Second, I am not interested in having my rights left up "to the states.:[/quote]

+1.  Plus, anyone who is truly “pro-life” (anti-abortion) is not interested in just leaving it up to the states.  They want to save the fetuses in blue states too.  This was just the starting point.  The “states rights” people are more concerned with political wins.  There’s a really feverish, rabid group of right-wingers who will not stop there.  It doesn’t matter what Trump says in public right now, he needs their buy in.  And he’s already put a lot of the right judges in place should laws get challenged in the courts. He’d appoint even more in a second term.[/quote]

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