Nationwide abortion restrictions will have a deadly impact, experts warn
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The incoming Trump administration is expected to impose further restrictions on abortion with deadly effect, warn experts. Health care advocates have warned of the deadly impact of nationwide restrictions on abortions, amid concerns the Trump administration will criminalize distribution of medical equipment used in the procedures and roll back access to abortion pills in the mail.
![[Women who nearly died from the bans are featured in the film which focuses on Tennessee and Florida]](https://static.independent.co.uk/2025/01/12/22/0P4A7837.jpg)
They also highlighted the difficulty of tracking the deadly impact of these restrictions due to a lack of maternal mortality rate data. Since the 2022 Dobbs decision ended the national right to abortion, some states have disbanded their maternal mortality review committees, the experts said. Others, like Texas, have reportedly ruled they will “skip” collecting data from 2022 to 2024.
![[Pro-choice and anti-abortion protesters clash outside the Supreme Court in Washington DC, following the fall of Roe v Wade]](https://static.independent.co.uk/2024/10/22/19/Screenshot-2024-08-28-at-10.27.47%E2%80%AFAM.jpg)
“We are very concerned about what is going to happen. We fear the administrative rules the incoming administration and state legislatures may enact,” said Linda Goldstein, senior counsel at the Center for Reproductive Rights, an award-winning global legal advocacy organization that has filed dozens of lawsuits challenging abortion bans across the country.
Speaking after the screening of the film, which she described as a vital and “holistic” look at the issue, Goldstein pointed out that while President-elect Donald Trump has repeatedly stated he would not impose a federal abortion ban, other legislative measures could have a similar effect. Trump has repeatedly said it should be “up to the states” to decide on restrictions, though his incoming vice president, JD Vance, has said in the past he was open to a federal ban.
