For the many of us concerned about reproductive rights under a Donald Trump-Mike Pence administration, Trump's feminist-ish businesswoman daughter, Ivanka, has been the only ray of hope.

It's a dying light.

In the coming months, the rights to abortion and contraception will be under the biggest threats of the past decade. The ability to decide when and whether to have children is the key that gives women the ability to open all kinds of other doors — higher education, financial stability, a good job, personal freedom, even romantic love. Those of us who cherish these hard-won rights (and who push to win those that remain unfulfilled) are nervous, trying to figure out what will be the first to go, and what few rights and liberties we might be able to protect. Some who support women's rights think Ivanka may be the barrier between her father and the GOP's most aggressive negative impulses. "To say women are going backwards would be wrong," one Trump supporter who identifies as a feminist told the New York Times. "Look at how much Trump hires women, how much he does rely on women, how much he relies on his own daughter. I’m sort of amazed by her. She may pull him more into the middle. She’ll be a good voice for women."

If this voter agrees with nearly every feminist organization and the plentiful research conclusions on what works to secure gender equality and women's empowerment — that is, a combination of education, economic opportunity, and reproductive freedoms — she probably shouldn't hold her breath.

Republicans have already promised to repeal the Affordable Care Act, President Barack Obama's signature piece of legislation, which blocked insurance companies from charging women more than men and from making pregnancy a preexisting condition. The ACA's contraception mandate, which requires most insurers to offer a range of family-planning methods with no co-pay, was controversial among abortion opponents — despite the fact that contraception is the most effective way to lower the abortion rate, no major pro-life groups support expanding contraception access, and Republicans regularly try to curtail women's access to it. With full Republican control of the federal government, it seems unlikely that this mandate, under which millions of women are now able to get the birth control method of their choice, will survive intact.

And if you think you'll be able to get contraception from, say, Planned Parenthood instead, Congressional Republicans are looking to make that more difficult too. The GOP has already indicated that they will move quickly to pull federal funds from the organization, despite the fact that the funds they're pulling pay for things like birth control, cervical cancer screenings, and STI tests — not abortions — for millions of women.

President-elect Trump will also have the opportunity to appoint at least one (and probably more than one) Supreme Court justice. He has already said he will appoint anti-abortion judges; if he gets enough appointments, he may be able to swing the balance of the court so far to the right that the landmark Roe v. Wade decision is overturned, and American women lose their legal right to abortion.

Congressional Republicans, with Trump's signature, also have power over Title X funding, the federal program that funds family-planning services for poor women. The GOP has played politics with Title X before, trying to block those funds from going to Planned Parenthood, for example, and even trying to cut the program entirely. In the right's coming assault on contraception access, poor women's rights will be first on the chopping block.

Overseas, the U.S. doesn't pay for abortions, but it does help fund other methods of family-planning, and many organizations abroad that work on women's health and rights are, obviously, pro-choice. Under the influence of anti-abortion activists long holding sway with Republicans, groups could lose U.S. funding simply for telling women their legal options, or advocating for abortion rights after observing firsthand all the women and girls maimed and killed by unsafe illegal abortions.

Maybe Ivanka will swoop in and save the day. She does, observers note, have her father's ear; she may indeed be one of the most powerful first daughters in history. President-elect Trump himself has said that "Ivanka is so much into that whole issue of women's health and women, and she's my guide on that whole subject."

But we've seen little evidence of that. While Ivanka is an advocate of "women who work," she's less vocal on "women who can work because their dreams weren't derailed by an unwanted pregnancy they were forced to bear." That is, women who need abortions.

"I don’t express my views on policy, with one exception as it relates to child care and advocating for women," Ivanka said at the Fortune Most Powerful Women summit back in October.

But when she was asked on the campaign trail whether she's pro-choice, Ivanka told Boston Public Radio host Margery Eagan, “I don’t talk about my politics," adding that "I don’t feel like it’s my role, and not the candidate’s. I’m the daughter … I don’t think my politics are relevant to the discussion."

Advocating for child care, it seems, is one thing. Advocating for women to decide for themselves whether and when to have children at all is another.

Ivanka also calls herself liberal on social issues but fiscally conservative, which suggests that what's really going on is that she is at least nominally pro-choice, but doesn't want to tick off the GOP base, and simply doesn't care enough about the issue to challenge Republican orthodoxy on it. That in turn suggests she's unlikely to really challenge her father on it either. And despite Trump's claim that Ivanka is his go-to gal on women's health, it seems equally likely that Ivanka hasn't expressed any interest in reproductive health issues, but that her father lumps all "women's stuff" together — child care, women in the workplace, women's health care — and delegates it to Ivanka because he couldn't care less. After all, when Nancy Pelosi raised the subject of women's issues, Trump simply handed the phone to his daughter rather than discuss women-focused policy with the House minority leader.

Ivanka, charming as she is, may truly be her father's daughter: a saleswoman by nature, latching on to whatever builds her brand and bolsters her bank account. From books like Lean In and Unfinished Business to conferences like Women in the World and the Fortune event Ivanka herself spoke at, feminism can be lucrative for a handful of well-positioned women. That's not necessarily a bad thing, at least if the well-heeled women making feminism mainstream are also true believers and thoughtful advocates (or are at least willing to support and fund those who are). But there's also plenty of room on the women's empowerment train to pick up a few stragglers looking to cash in.

It's not clear yet where Ivanka sits. That she refers to her Women Who Work initiative as a cornerstone of her "brand" is one discomfiting piece of evidence to support the theory that she's selling women's rights for personal gain and profit, rather than advocating for our rights out of personal mission and passion. If that's the case, don't expect her to stand up for the many women who are able to make their whole lives work because they are also able to choose when and if to become mothers.

If Ivanka doesn't make a peep as her father and other Republicans gut the ACA, hollow out contraception coverage, constrain women's reproductive choices around the world, and stack the courts with anti-abortion and anti-contraception judges, well, we'll know just how committed Ivanka really is to this whole feminism thing. Too many women will realize they shouldn't have laid their hopes at her feet, no matter how much she promised to promote her feminist brand with the same zeal as she promoted Ivanka Trump pumps.

It doesn't have to end like that. Maybe Ivanka will be a stealth feminist in the most brutally boorish White House of the modern era — she is apparently hearing from Sheryl Sandberg and Anne-Marie Slaughter, neither of whom are reproductive rights activists, but who likely hope to push the Trump administration left on issues like parental leave and child care. Maybe she really does have both enormous influence over her father and also the best interests of American women in mind. Maybe she's done enough Feminism 101 reading to realize that most of the freedoms women enjoy are enabled by reproductive choice. Maybe, once her father and her husband, soon to be a top presidential adviser, are safely ensconced in the West Wing, she will find her voice on choice. Maybe Ivanka really is the advocate for women she claims to be.

If that's the case — and I hope it is — it's time for her to prove it. Republicans are trying to repeal the ACA now. They are holding speedy confirmation hearings on Trump appointees who, like Tom Price, are hostile to women's rights. Republican presidents have historically instituted repressive anti-abortion and anti-contraception policies abroad in their first few days in office. Ivanka should have spoken up on women's health months ago, but she didn't. There's still time. But by Jan. 20, when her father takes office, it may be too late.

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Jill Filipovic senior political writer Jill Filipovic is a contributing writer for cosmopolitan.com.

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