War on Women Report: MAGA Republicans Hope to Turn Miscarriage Into a Crime and Gut Planned Parenthood

[justaprogressive]

MAGA Republicans are back in the White House, and Project 2025 is their guide—the right-wing plan to turn back the clock on women’s rights, remove abortion access, and force women into roles as wives and mothers in the “ideal, natural family structure.” We know an empowered female electorate is essential to democracy. That’s why day after day, we stay vigilant in our goals to dismantle patriarchy at every turn. We are watching, and we refuse to go back. This is the War on Women Report.

Since our last report…
+ Four states—California, Massachusetts, New York and New Jersey—have petitioned the FDA to undo restrictions on the abortion pill mifepristone, citing the drug’s proven safety record and arguing that the restrictions are unnecessary. Over the last few months, Department of Health and Human Services secretary RFK Jr. has expressed scientifically unfounded doubts about the medication. In April, the ultraconservative think tank Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC) published a deeply flawed, non-peer-reviewed “study” about the so-called danger of abortion pills.

+ Some good news out of Montana: This month, the state supreme court struck down three abortion restrictions that Republican lawmakers passed in 2021, ending a years-long legal challenge from healthcare providers and advocates. Abortion is legal in Montana, but the restrictions would have prohibited abortion after 20 weeks, added extra regulations to medication abortions, and required doctors to offer patients the chance to view an ultrasound and listen to a fetal heart tone before confirming their decision to have an abortion.

Let’s not forget what else was sent our way last month …

Tuesday, June 3
Women Could Be Prosecuted for Miscarriages in West Virginia
Women who experience miscarriages in West Virginia could face charges if they bury, flush or otherwise appear to “hide evidence” of their miscarriage under new interpretations of the state’s antiabortion laws, according to Raleigh County prosecuting attorney Tom Truman. He also told WVNS reporter Jessica Farrish that law enforcement could prosecute miscarriages based on a woman’s supposed intention: “If you were relieved, and had been telling people, ‘I’d rather get run over by a bus than have this baby,’ that may play into law enforcement’s thinking, too.”

https://msmagazine.com/2025/06/30/war-on-women-report-maga-republicans-miscarriage-crime-planned-parenthood/

[Sibelius Fan]

1. God is history's greatest abortionist.

They say god created man. Designed men and women. Designed a reproductive system where 25% of pregnancies do not come to term due to natural causes. That includes miscarriages.

God loves him some abortion.

[CrispyQ]

2. It's not just the men.

For me, this was probably the most depressing chart from the 2024 election. The pink ribbon is just depressing as hell but the orange one isn't much better.