Release: Three Years After Overturn of Roe v. Wade, Trump is Still Putting Women’s Health in Danger

Today marks the third anniversary of Donald Trump’s handpicked Supreme Court justices ripping away women’s recognized fundamental right to make decisions about their own body. Dobbs v. Jackson paved the way for Trump and his Republican allies to launch attacks on women’s reproductive health and enact abortion bans nationwide.

In Trump’s second term, reproductive health care is at even greater risk as Trump pushes his dangerous backdoor abortion ban through Congress and emboldens Republicans in legislatures across the country to further limit women’s access to critical health care.

On the third anniversary of the Dobbs ruling, Maryland Democratic Party Executive Director Karen Darkes released the following statement:

“Three years ago today, Donald Trump’s handpicked Supreme Court justices, who were supported by Larry Hogan, made good on Republicans’ decadeslong quest to rip away women’s reproductive freedoms. In the years since, Republicans have enacted draconian, total abortion bans, restricted birth control access, and slashed health care funding. Now, Trump and his Republican minions are carrying out Project 2025’s blueprint by sneaking a backdoor abortion ban into their dangerous budget bill. As if slashing Marylanders’ health care wasn’t craven enough, Republicans are hellbent on ensuring abortion care is out of reach for women across the country. Let’s be clear: right-wing politicians would rather let women die than recognize their right to make decisions about their bodies.”

In Maryland, Republicans are following Trump’s lead by pushing anti-abortion legislation. In the 2025 Legislative Session alone, the following abortion restriction laws were proposed by Republicans (and defeated by Democrats):

• A bill put forward by the Maryland Freedom Caucus would force Maryland to track and report women for having abortions. (This was a specific Project 2025 policy idea – page 455, line 24)

• A bill to model the draconian laws from red states to outlaw abortion before many women even know they are pregnant.

• A bill to implement forced procedures and wait times for women seeking an abortion.

Donald Trump “proudly” took credit for overturning Roe v. Wade and all the extreme abortion bans across the country.

Trump: “I was proudly the person responsible for the ending of … Roe v. Wade.”

Trump: “For 54 years they were trying to get Roe v. Wade terminated, and I did it, and I’m proud to have done it. … Nobody else was going to get that done but me, and we did it, and we did something that was a miracle.”

Rolling Stone: “Trump Claims Credit for All Abortion Bans”

Rolling Stone: “Trump and Vance Have Backed States That Want to Surveil Pregnant Women”

In his second term, Trump continues to attack women’s reproductive rights. 

The New Republic: “Trump Sneaks Dangerous Rights for Fetuses Into Executive Order”

“By describing a fetus as a person from conception, Trump has legitimized fetal personhood. … The legal language employed by fetal personhood also effectively categorizes any person receiving an abortion at any stage as a murderer.”

Daily Beast: “Trump Administration Removes Reproductive Rights Website”

NOTUS: “Anti-abortion advocates say having allies in the cabinet will set the tone for abortion policies in the administration. …

“Trump’s agency picks could make changes that would have nationwide implications on abortion access.”

Politico: “Trump admin moves to drop fight over emergency abortions, reversing Biden admin stance”

Reuters: “Trump administration to freeze family-planning funds for Planned Parenthood”

Meanwhile, Trump’s Republican lapdogs in Congress are pushing his disastrous budget bill that would threaten Marylanders’ reproductive health care access.

NOTUS: “The reconciliation bill has given Republicans a way to target abortion access in states that legally protect it: threatening their federal health care funding.

“House Republicans added a last-minute provision to their reconciliation bill via a manager’s amendment that would block certain Affordable Care Act funds from going to state health plans that cover abortion services. …

“If the provision becomes law, it could force state officials to choose between maintaining abortion accessibility and ensuring that residents maintain their health care coverage. …

“The Hyde Amendment already bans federal funds from being used directly on abortion. The Affordable Care Act prohibits recipients from using cost-sharing reductions — financial assistance to lower the out-of-pocket costs for low-income individuals — to pay for abortions.

“However, the reconciliation bill takes that limitation further, saying that health plans that cover abortion services cannot receive federally funded cost-sharing reductions at all. That could threaten financial assistance for all residents of a state. In 2024, half of all people enrolled in an ACA health plan qualified for cost-sharing reductions, per the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.”