'No greater threat' to women: Mary Trump warns of uncle's winks and nods to extreme pals
Former President Donald Trump is the greatest threat facing American women.
That's according to his niece Mary Trump, who wrote in her latest entry in her newsletter "The Good in Us" Monday night that he has "winked and nodded at his extreme right-wing friends about what he will do if he gets another chance."
"Donald keeps bragging that he was the one who got Roe overturned," she said. "He keeps telling us the decision was 'amazing.' He said watching states enact new restrictions is 'a beautiful thing to watch.' He has said everything should be left to the states. Including contraception and IVF treatments."
The Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v. Wade ought to have been "rock bottom," Mary Trump said, adding that it represented an "unforgivable attack" on women.
But Ms. Trump warned that if her uncle wins reelection, the attacks won't stop there.
"Two years ago, when six unelected right-wing Republican operatives posing as Supreme Court justices decided to strip basic human rights from millions of women, that should have been the lowest point: that should have been when America said enough.
But the horrifying truth is, that it was just the beginning," she wrote.
Mary Trump pointed to Alabama's Supreme Court, where "religious fanatics" came for in vitro fertilization. In that state, the Supreme Court ruled in February that frozen embryos can be considered children under state law. The ruling led several clinics to pause IVF treatments.
She pointed to a concerted right-wing effort to attack abortion pills, which the Supreme Court ruled unanimously this month to preserve access to the medication used in about two-thirds of all abortions in the country last year.
"While many saw a recent Supreme Court decision that saved the right to the medication as a win, the reality is that the illegitimate super-majority court didn’t rule on the merits at all," Mary Trump said. Doing so would have made the issue of abortion medication an election issue and they want to help their candidate as much as possible."
She added: "They’re keeping their powder dry for a time when it’ll be safer—for them—to abolish yet another right. After Louisiana moved to classify abortion medications as controlled substances, it is pretty obvious that conservatives won’t stop coming for them."
Mary Trump said her uncle will be the reason a national abortion ban is enacted — if he isn't stopped.
"There is no greater threat to the women of America than Donald J. Trump," she said.