The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) said Aug. 4 that acting Attorney General Todd Blanche’s recent vow to make the Dobbs decision “permanent in every single state” has been misrepresented by critics as a call for greater federal control over state abortion policies.
Blanche said on the private conference call with faith leaders that the Trump administration is working to put policies in place to stop mail-order abortion drugs such as mifepristone from reaching states that ban them.
The Supreme Court empowered the states in its 2022 ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, restoring their ability to regulate abortion, which it had taken away in Roe v. Wade (1973)….