--- title: Donald Trump’s Election Heralds a New Abortion Landscape description: Trump has pledged to appoint antiabortion Justices to the Supreme Court and suggested that those jurists would vote to overturn Roe v. Wade, thus allowing... canonical: https://time.com/4574496/donald-trump-abortion/ author: Charlotte Alter article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-11-17T12:26:29.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T01:52:33.449Z article:section: Politics og:title: Donald Trump’s Election Heralds a New Abortion Landscape og:description: Trump has pledged to appoint antiabortion Justices to the Supreme Court and suggested that those jurists would vote to overturn Roe v. Wade, thus allowing... og:url: https://time.com/4574496/donald-trump-abortion/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Donald Trump’s Election Heralds a New Abortion Landscape twitter:description: Trump has pledged to appoint antiabortion Justices to the Supreme Court and suggested that those jurists would vote to overturn Roe v. Wade, thus allowing... twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Donald Trump’s Election Heralds a New Abortion Landscape  by [Charlotte Alter](https://time.com/author/charlotte-alter/)  ## Charlotte Alter Senior Correspondent Nov 17, 2016 12:26 PM UTC  by [Charlotte Alter](https://time.com/author/charlotte-alter/)  ## Charlotte Alter Senior Correspondent Nov 17, 2016 12:26 PM UTC Trump has pledged to appoint antiabortion Justices to the Supreme Court and suggested that those jurists would vote to overturn Roe v. Wade, thus allowing states to again criminalize abortion. He also supports a federal legislative ban on late-term abortions and has pledged to make the Hyde Amendment–an annually renewed statute that bans almost all taxpayer funding for abortions–into permanent law. Repealing or amending the Affordable Care Act, which forces health insurers to cover contraceptives, could make it harder for some women to get birth control. The GOP Congress has long sought to end federal funding for Planned Parenthood, a major provider of family planning for the poor. Trump defended Planned Parenthood in the primaries but announced in September that he supports federal defunding of the group if it continues to provide abortion services. “This is the gravest situation I’ve ever seen,” says Donna Crane of NARAL Pro-Choice America. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4574496/donald-trump-abortion/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4574496/donald-trump-abortion/"},"headline":"Donald Trump’s Election Heralds a New Abortion Landscape","datePublished":"2016-11-17T12:26:29.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T01:52:33.449Z","description":"Trump has pledged to appoint antiabortion Justices to the Supreme Court and suggested that those jurists would vote to overturn Roe v. Wade, thus allowing...","url":"https://time.com/4574496/donald-trump-abortion/","keywords":["Donald Trump","abortion"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Charlotte Alter","jobTitle":"Senior Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/charlotte-alter/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/donald-trump/","name":"Donald Trump"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4574496/donald-trump-abortion/","name":"Donald Trump’s Election Heralds a New Abortion Landscape"}}]}] ```