When NBC's "Meet the Press" host pointed out that "more than half of abortions in this country are medication abortions" and asked if he will restrict the availability of abortion pills when he returns to office, Trump replied, "I'll probably stay with exactly what I've been saying for the last two years, and the answer is no."
He did not, however, commit to that, saying things change.
"I do not like putting myself in a position like that," he told the host. "Things do change, but I do not think it's going to change."
Carol Tobias, president of the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC), says her organization would like to see the abortion pill severely restricted, but she does not know whether that will happen.
"What I am hoping is that the president will be willing to go back to the law that was in effect when he was POTUS, which were much stricter regulations on the pill from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)," she tells AFN.
Under those restrictions, women had to see a doctor and find out for sure that they were pregnant – and also undergo some kind of physical exam to check for an ectopic pregnancy – before getting an abortion pill prescription. After taking the pills, she had to return to the doctor to make sure that the abortion was completed and that the unborn child's remains had been expelled from the uterus.
If not, there could be severe consequences like hemorrhaging, sepsis, and worse.
"We've seen women die in this country because they did not get proper medical care after taking the abortion pill," Tobias laments. "My hope, and what I think we can see happen, is that this new administration will at least require the FDA to put these commonsense protections for women back in place."
