Donald Trump — the man most responsible for triggering the end of a federal right to abortion — announced Monday that if he wins the presidential election in November, he does not plan to support further federal restrictions on the practice and would allow it to remain a state issue.
“My view is now that we have abortion where everybody wanted it from a legal standpoint,” Trump began. (The word “everybody” is being used liberally here: Roughly two-thirds of voters disapprove of the Supreme Court’s decision overruling Roe v. Wade, according to a recent survey.
“My view is now that we have abortion where everybody wanted it from a legal standpoint,” Trump began. (The word “everybody” is being used liberally here: Roughly two-thirds of voters disapprove of the Supreme Court’s decision overruling Roe v. Wade, according to a recent survey.
- 4/8/2024
- by Tessa Stuart and Asawin Suebsaeng
- Rollingstone.com
Donald Trump wants to implement a 16-week national abortion ban, The New York Times reported on Friday.
The former president has largely avoided taking on reproductive rights during the Republican primary, although he has at times made a point to take credit for the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. The decision has been blamed for the GOP’s lackluster showing in the 2022 midterm elections, and Rolling Stone reported last year that Trump has privately griped that the party is “getting killed on abortion.”
According to the Times,...
The former president has largely avoided taking on reproductive rights during the Republican primary, although he has at times made a point to take credit for the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. The decision has been blamed for the GOP’s lackluster showing in the 2022 midterm elections, and Rolling Stone reported last year that Trump has privately griped that the party is “getting killed on abortion.”
According to the Times,...
- 2/16/2024
- by Ryan Bort and Tessa Stuart
- Rollingstone.com
Former Vice President Mike Pence said during a pro-life summit that he wants the abortion pill, known as Mifepristone, to be taken off the market immediately.
Pence appeared at the Students for Life of America (Sfla) National Pro-Life Summit this month.
He sat down for a Q&a with Sfla President Kristan Hawkins at the beginning of the event.
Pence was asked what a pro-life president should initially do if elected in 2024.
“I think that our new president should direct the new attorney general to suspend all efforts to harass pro-life activists in America,” Pence said. “And frankly I think they should pull the abortion pill off the market.”
“I believe those are two urgent causes and I think we have to step forward and make that happen on day one,” Pence said.
The Supreme Court is expected to hear a case that could end the Fda’s authorization of...
Pence appeared at the Students for Life of America (Sfla) National Pro-Life Summit this month.
He sat down for a Q&a with Sfla President Kristan Hawkins at the beginning of the event.
Pence was asked what a pro-life president should initially do if elected in 2024.
“I think that our new president should direct the new attorney general to suspend all efforts to harass pro-life activists in America,” Pence said. “And frankly I think they should pull the abortion pill off the market.”
“I believe those are two urgent causes and I think we have to step forward and make that happen on day one,” Pence said.
The Supreme Court is expected to hear a case that could end the Fda’s authorization of...
- 1/31/2024
- by Alessio Atria
- Uinterview
The man who essentially ended the federal right to abortion thinks that he can now run for president in 2024 as a “moderate” on the issue.
In recent weeks, according to two people familiar with the matter, Donald Trump has privately remarked that several anti-abortion leaders — people who spent the past year pushing him to commit to enacting a draconian national ban — now have no “leverage” to force him to do anything.
Despite their very public pressure campaign for that abortion ban, the former president insists that they will all fall...
In recent weeks, according to two people familiar with the matter, Donald Trump has privately remarked that several anti-abortion leaders — people who spent the past year pushing him to commit to enacting a draconian national ban — now have no “leverage” to force him to do anything.
Despite their very public pressure campaign for that abortion ban, the former president insists that they will all fall...
- 11/27/2023
- by Tessa Stuart and Asawin Suebsaeng
- Rollingstone.com
In another sign of the political havoc the Dobbs decision continues to wreak on the Republican party, protesters upset over Donald Trump’s stance on abortion gathered outside the former president’s rally in South Florida on Wednesday.
They weren’t pro-choice, though — they were anti-abortion activists upset that Trump, the one person most directly responsible for the end of Roe v. Wade, is in their view, caving on abortion.
In recent months, Trump has privately bemoaned the fact that the GOP is “getting killed on abortion” — even as he...
They weren’t pro-choice, though — they were anti-abortion activists upset that Trump, the one person most directly responsible for the end of Roe v. Wade, is in their view, caving on abortion.
In recent months, Trump has privately bemoaned the fact that the GOP is “getting killed on abortion” — even as he...
- 11/9/2023
- by Tessa Stuart
- Rollingstone.com
Donald Trump — who has fretted privately that Republicans are “getting killed” electorally on abortion — is now running ads touting his pro-life record in Iowa, the first state to vote in the GOP primary.
In the ads, paid for by Trump’s campaign and first reported by Kyle Tharp in his newsletter Fwiw, Trump declares himself “The Most Pro-Life President in history.” He details his anti-abortion victories, including nominating a conservative troika of Supreme Court justices who were “instrumental” in the court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade; preventing “U.
In the ads, paid for by Trump’s campaign and first reported by Kyle Tharp in his newsletter Fwiw, Trump declares himself “The Most Pro-Life President in history.” He details his anti-abortion victories, including nominating a conservative troika of Supreme Court justices who were “instrumental” in the court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade; preventing “U.
- 10/16/2023
- by Tessa Stuart and Nikki McCann Ramirez
- Rollingstone.com
Republicans drastically underperformed in the 2022 midterm elections, only narrowly taking control of the House of Representatives while leaving the Senate in Democratic control. The overturning of Roe v. Wade was seen by many as the primary culprit. Donald Trump isn’t exactly distancing himself from the ruling — at least as he tries to fend off his far-right primary opponents.
“I was able to kill Roe v. Wade,” he crowed Wednesday morning on Truth Social. He also took credit for the wave of abortion bans that have gone into effect since...
“I was able to kill Roe v. Wade,” he crowed Wednesday morning on Truth Social. He also took credit for the wave of abortion bans that have gone into effect since...
- 5/17/2023
- by Ryan Bort
- Rollingstone.com
Two thousand attendees at the National Pro-Life Summit cast their votes on Saturday for their favorite prospective GOP nominee for president in 2024. The winner is: Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. It was the first 2024 straw poll conducted among anti-abortion voters, one of the Republican Party’s most loyal voting blocs.
DeSantis banked more than half of the votes cast, 53.73 percent. Former President Donald Trump placed in a distant second with just 19.22 percent. His former deputy, Mike Pence — who has called often for a national ban on abortion — took home roughly eight percent.
DeSantis banked more than half of the votes cast, 53.73 percent. Former President Donald Trump placed in a distant second with just 19.22 percent. His former deputy, Mike Pence — who has called often for a national ban on abortion — took home roughly eight percent.
- 1/21/2023
- by Kara Voght and Tessa Stuart
- Rollingstone.com
Donald Trump was certain that evangelical voters and Christian-right leaders would “never” abandon him. In the months before he formally announced his campaign to reclaim the White House, Trump had quizzed certain advisers about what “the evangelicals” thought of his flirtations with a third run, two sources familiar with the matter say. The former president also wanted to know what that key conservative voting bloc thought of other prospective 2024 GOP presidential contenders, such as Glenn Youngkin, Ron DeSantis, Mike Pompeo, and Mike Pence.
He was warned, at times, that there...
He was warned, at times, that there...
- 11/23/2022
- by Tessa Stuart and Asawin Suebsaeng
- Rollingstone.com
This review originally ran June 12, 2022, for the film’s Tribeca Festival premiere.
Despite its title, Cynthia Lowen’s “Battleground” takes an unexpectedly restrained approach to the eternally volatile issue of abortion.
Indeed, were it not for the occasionally ominous notes of Gil Talmi’s score and the closing plea to “get organized” by visiting the film’s website, one could easily view Lowen’s project as entirely even-handed. This is neither a criticism nor a compliment, but the fact that it could be taken as either is just one more indication of the cavernous divide she records.
Her primary intent is to show in unambiguous terms how anti-choice activists patiently seeded and then victoriously harvested what we now know to be tremendous political success. The footage she’s assembled, which has been edited effectively by Emmy winner Nancy Novack (“When the Levees Broke”), offers a truly eye-opening glimpse into a remarkably focused movement.
Despite its title, Cynthia Lowen’s “Battleground” takes an unexpectedly restrained approach to the eternally volatile issue of abortion.
Indeed, were it not for the occasionally ominous notes of Gil Talmi’s score and the closing plea to “get organized” by visiting the film’s website, one could easily view Lowen’s project as entirely even-handed. This is neither a criticism nor a compliment, but the fact that it could be taken as either is just one more indication of the cavernous divide she records.
Her primary intent is to show in unambiguous terms how anti-choice activists patiently seeded and then victoriously harvested what we now know to be tremendous political success. The footage she’s assembled, which has been edited effectively by Emmy winner Nancy Novack (“When the Levees Broke”), offers a truly eye-opening glimpse into a remarkably focused movement.
- 10/7/2022
- by Elizabeth Weitzman
- The Wrap
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Some of the most powerful, viscerally emotional films in recent months have been pleas for abortion rights, from the 1960s-set French drama Happening to the documentary The Janes, about an underground network of illegal abortion providers.
Cynthia Lowen takes the opposite approach in her coolly cerebral pro-choice documentary, Battleground, which journeys inside the anti-abortion movement in order to show reproductive rights advocates what they’re up against today. With the subjects’ willing participation, and without any voiceover to lead viewers’ opinions, the filmmakers unobtrusively go along to rallies, listen in on strategy sessions and interview leaders of top anti-abortion groups. The results are far from cheap and easy caricatures. Lowen (director of the documentaries Bully and Netizens, about online harassment of women) does not find rabid zealots, but sincere, media-savvy, well-organized women — presented respectfully throughout — who have been playing the long game for...
Some of the most powerful, viscerally emotional films in recent months have been pleas for abortion rights, from the 1960s-set French drama Happening to the documentary The Janes, about an underground network of illegal abortion providers.
Cynthia Lowen takes the opposite approach in her coolly cerebral pro-choice documentary, Battleground, which journeys inside the anti-abortion movement in order to show reproductive rights advocates what they’re up against today. With the subjects’ willing participation, and without any voiceover to lead viewers’ opinions, the filmmakers unobtrusively go along to rallies, listen in on strategy sessions and interview leaders of top anti-abortion groups. The results are far from cheap and easy caricatures. Lowen (director of the documentaries Bully and Netizens, about online harassment of women) does not find rabid zealots, but sincere, media-savvy, well-organized women — presented respectfully throughout — who have been playing the long game for...
- 6/13/2022
- by Caryn James
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Few political debates are as messy, personal, or unwieldy as the abortion debate that continues to roil America, and so Cynthia Lowen’s “Battleground,” a film so timely that the filmmaking team presumably had to slap on a final series of title cards long after it was accepted into this year’s Tribeca Festival, attempts to cover many facets of the abortion debate, and while that’s admirable, it often comes up short on the way to better understanding.
That may well be the point, however. As the film winds on into increasingly chilling territory, the sense that it will offer no hard and fast answers, no actionable solutions starts to feel more like a feature, rather than a bug. After all, isn’t that the case when it comes to the very debate it’s chronicling?
Billed in official festival materials as “focus[ing] on three women from distinctly different...
That may well be the point, however. As the film winds on into increasingly chilling territory, the sense that it will offer no hard and fast answers, no actionable solutions starts to feel more like a feature, rather than a bug. After all, isn’t that the case when it comes to the very debate it’s chronicling?
Billed in official festival materials as “focus[ing] on three women from distinctly different...
- 6/12/2022
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
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