Repro Roundup: August Abortion News You May Have Missed, from Planned Parenthood Votes 

WASHINGTON, D.C. — It’s been a busy month! Let’s take a quick look back at some abortion news you may have missed in August. 

• Donald Trump is still trying to mislead voters on abortion – If it sounds like we’re repeating ourselves, it’s because we are. It’s time for everyone to stop acting like we can believe anything that comes out of Donald Trump’s mouth. Donald Trump will say and do anything to get elected. You can’t trust his campaign statements, but you can trust his record on abortion. He’s bragged about overturning Roe; he’s tried to defund Planned Parenthood; and he’s said that abortion patients should be punished. He even supported an abortion ban as president. Let’s stop pretending he’ll be different, if given a second term. His record is all you need to predict what he and his anti-abortion cronies like JD Vance and the architects of Project 2025 will do: work to completely eliminate abortion access nationwide by misapplying the Comstock Act, revoking FDA approval of mifepristone, and so much more.
• JD Vance’s No Good, Very Bad Month (part 2) – Sorry, JD, but people just don’t seem to want a weird vice president who can’t even order at a donut shop — and who keeps making offensive comments about people who don’t have kids. JD Vance’s approval ratings continued to tank this month. We’ll add to the reasons people should hate on JD Vance: 1. He supports a national abortion ban; 2. He voted to block nationwide access to IVF; 3. He has consistently attacked and undermined reproductive freedom throughout his career; and 4. He is eager to do the bidding of Trump and abortion opponents’ Project 2025 plot, including allowing the government to monitor people’s pregnancies to potentially prosecute if they miscarry. 
• Abortion is *officially* on the ballot in 9 states – In August, even more ballot measures qualified for the November election. Abortion-related initiatives are officially on the ballot in AZ, CO, FL, MD, MO, MT, NE, NV, and NY. Voters in those states will have a chance to directly influence their states’ reproductive freedom laws.
• Someone teach Eric Hovde what emergency contraception is – Apparently Wisconsin Republican Senate nominee Eric Hovde doesn’t know what Plan B is, because at an event with WisPolitics, Hovde ignorantly claimed that, “The vast majority of abortions today are done through the day-after pill.” Hm, nope, that’s not how that works. Emergency contraception ≠ abortion. Someone running for U.S. Senate should have a basic understanding of the health care they want to ban. Eric Hovde isn’t qualified for U.S. Senate, and he sure isn’t qualified to make our health care decisions for us. 
• Sam Brown keeps hiding from his anti-abortion statements – Sam Brown keeps trying to hide from his past support of abortion bans. No matter what he says on the campaign trail, there is no question that Sam Brown cannot be trusted to protect our rights. His anti-abortion record speaks for itself. He’s backed a radical abortion ban without exceptions for rape or incestas recently as his 2022 Senate run and as early as his 2014 run for the Texas legislature. On his website, Brown even promotes anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers, fake clinics that use misinformation  and shame tactics to keep pregnant people from getting real care. He’s already said his position on abortion is “non-negotiable,” A candidate so deeply committed to eliminating abortion is sure  to vote for a national abortion ban if elected to the Senate.
• Republicans are so scared of losing, they’re using RFK Jr. literature to try to distract voters – Republicans in Pennsylvania got caught distributing pro-RFK Jr. mailers that “use state party branding and popular pro-choice messaging to trick voters.”  They’re so sure their own candidates won’t appeal to voters that they’re trying to boost RFK Jr. as a spoiler candidate. Sounds desperate to us. 
• Reproductive freedom took center stage at the DNC – Joy. Hope. Excitement. Those are some of the words colleagues who attended used to describe the DNC, where reproductive freedom was front and center in convention programming, speeches, and events. There’s no question: November’s election is about two different futures and visions for America and Kamala Harris’s record shows she’ll expand access to reproductive health care. 

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