Newsweek spoke to five women who have either undergone sterilization procedures or plan to in the wake of President-elect Donald Trump’s victory on November 5. They all expressed fear their reproductive choices will be taken from them under Trump’s administration.
Newsweek has contacted Trump’s transition team, via email, for comment.
“I am not happy that I felt forced into a surgery I did not want to alter my body, I feel like the election tied my hands and forced me to be sterilized—that is horrible,” she told Newsweek.
The issue of abortion and reproductive rights was a major one in this year’s election. Trump, who took credit for the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade in 2022, removing the constitutional right to an abortion in the country, has repeatedly said that his position is to let the states decide their own abortion laws.
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“I have no idea what Trump will and won’t follow through on,” Wood said, “I was already upset when Roe v Wade was overturned. Living in the South, our prospects for protections and resources aren’t great if they aren’t otherwise ensured.”
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Newsweek has contacted Fuentes, who has said the comment was “sort of a joke” and a critique of the pro-choice movement and modern feminism, via direct message on X, for comment.
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But the five women who spoke to Newsweek are not convinced.
Newsweek has put all these comments to Trump’s team for a response.
