Trump administration

The Trump administration is calling frozen embryos children – opinion

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But the move represents a dramatic escalation of the Trump administration’s pursuit of fetal personhood, the doctrine that anti-abortion forces aspire to enshrine in law whereby fertilized eggs are granted constitutional rights as persons – a regime that would ban all abortion and many kinds of birth control and miscarriage management, would curtail the basic … Read more

Senators alarmed at Trump administration website Moms.gov promoting anti-abortion facilities

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In their Wednesday letter, senators – including Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Chuck Schumer, Ron Wyden and Tammy Duckworth – criticized the site and noted that it “directs pregnant women to unregulated and often non-medical anti-abortion facilities known as crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs)”, which they said “raises profound concerns about the health, safety and privacy of … Read more

Anti-abortion activists’ frustrations escalate after abortion pill ruling

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Both the White House and the Justice Department held closed-door meetings this month with anti-abortion activists who want the president to use executive power more aggressively to cut off access to the procedure. … Students for Life emerged from its own meeting with DOJ officials optimistic, and sent a video message to its followers that … Read more

Abortion clinic protesters eligible for payouts from new Trump ‘anti-weaponization’ fund

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The Justice Department’s new $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund — created by a legal settlement between President Donald Trump and his own administration — could funnel money to activists who broke into and blocked patients from entering abortion clinics. Read more at Politico

SCOTUS Preserved Abortion by Mail. Opponents Already Know Their Next Moves.

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Last week, as they awaited word from the high court about the fate of telehealth abortions, anti-abortion activists secured a closed-door meeting with Justice Department officials. There, they pushed the agency to revive a long dormant policy that could cut off virtually all access to both mifepristone and misoprostol — an 1800s-era anti-vice law known … Read more

The Trump team is quietly eliminating U.S. support for birth control abroad

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The second Trump administration has moved to eliminate programs for contraception and other family planning work abroad. Congress actually appropriated funds for this work, but the administration has not spent it. And it has shut down programs aimed at helping people choose when to have children, such as efforts to improve access to birth control … Read more

Trump has turned Title X upside down: from a contraception program into a pronatalist machine – opinion

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This month, the Trump administration renewed its attacks on Title X, the federal reproductive health program that provides birth control to an estimated 2 million low-income Americans. In the White House’s proposed budget, funding for the program was eliminated altogether. Then, the Title X administrators at the Department of Health and Human Services announced new … Read more

Trump admin moves Title X family planning program away from contraception, towards conception

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The nearly 70-page document included no mention of contraception other than an assertion that it is overprescribed, has negative side effects, and is part of a broader “overreliance on pharmaceutical and surgical treatments.” The guidance instead promotes “natural family planning methods,” such as period tracking apps and other forms of fertility awareness that have higher … Read more