The president reinstated a policy blocking U.S. aid to foreign organizations that use funds for abortion. He also overturned two Biden executive orders, contending they violated the law barring federal funding for abortion.
In the early days of his second term in office, Donald Trump has been cagey about where his administration will take abortion policy.
The move, announced in a presidential memorandum Friday, revives a policy known as the “global gag rule” that Trump and many other Republican presidents have implemented. Already, contractors that receive U.S. foreign aid money cannot use it to directly support abortion services. But they can tell people the option is available.
One recipient of a pardon, Lauren Handy, led the blockade of an abortion clinic in D.C. When police arrested her in 2022, authorities removed five fetuses from the home where she was staying. This was not normal or sane or reasonable, yet it was done to make a statement about Trump as an opponent of abortion.
President Donald Trump pardoned Michigan activists who blocked a woman from getting medical help after learning her fetus had fatal abnormalities.
Here are some of the actions Trump’s nominees could take on abortion, if confirmed, from HHS to the Justice Department.
President Donald Trump vowed to support anti-abortion-rights protesters in his second term as tens of thousands of demonstrators rallied in Washington on Friday for the annual March for Life.
Anti-abortion activists who gathered in Washington DC have criticised President Donald Trump for not supporting an end to national abortion access, one day after he issued pardons to 23 activists, including some convicted of blockading a reproductive health clinic and intimidating staff and patients.
Almost two dozen abortion activists are pardoned, Donald Trump's birthright citizenship ban is ruled unconstitutional – here are the key moments from his latest day in office.
The orders came hours after Trump addressed the anti-abortion March for Life via video and largely reemphasize GOP abortion policies.
President Donald Trump signed an executive action reinstating the so-called Mexico City Policy, delivering an early and expected victory to opponents of abortion rights who helped fuel his return to power.