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Last month, he said it would be “an honor” to “immediately terminate” a law he called the “Green New Scam.”

Republican and conservative hostility to abortion rights has persisted despite the ghastly deaths of pregnant women because doctors were unwilling to terminate their pregnancies because the treatment would break the law in their states, even in an emergency, and expose the doctors to consequences including criminal prosecution.

Nearly two-thirds of women currently use medication to terminate their pregnancies, and it has proved incredibly safe and effective.

The second drug used in medication abortion, misoprostol, can also terminate a pregnancy when used alone.

One of Trump’s top lawyers, Jonathan Mitchell, has openly argued that the Comstock Act bans all abortions, because its broad language applies even to equipment used to terminate pregnancies in a clinic.