Trump is heading back to the White House and the consequences for reproductive health in both the USA and globally are catastrophic.
When Trump first came to power in 2016, it provided Christian nationalists with what the author Anne Appelbaum described as their “biblical moment”. This was their unique opportunity to push forward their project and to fulfil their desired policies – to ban abortion, to roll back LGBTIQ rights, and to protect whiteness in America.
Following the lead of men like Leonard Leo, who ran initiatives to train anti-abortion lawyers, Trump promoted numerous conservative judges to the nation’s courts. This culminated in a Supreme Court that was primed to overrule the historic Roe vs Wade decision, which in 1973 allowed for the nationwide right to abortion for all women and girls.
