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.
President Donald Trump issued a memo Friday evening that would reinstate two global family planning policies and rescinded two Biden administration memos — his first major foray into regulating reproductive health after deemphasizing the issue on the campaign trail last year.
Trump expands Reagan-era abortion policy, cutting billions in global health aid to groups that provide abortion services.
President Donald Trump has kicked off his second term with a flurry of executive actions on immigration, the economy, DEI and more.
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.
President Donald Trump is pardoning anti-abortion activists who were convicted in the October 2020 invasion and blockade of a Washington clinic.
In the early days of his second term in office, Donald Trump has been cagey about where his administration will take abortion policy.
DOJ directive released on Friday states it will limit enforcement of federal law to cases involving death, injury or serious property damage.
Here are some of the actions Trump’s nominees could take on abortion, if confirmed, from HHS to the Justice Department.
President Donald Trump pardoned Michigan activists who blocked a woman from getting medical help after learning her fetus had fatal abnormalities.
Trump pardoned nearly two dozen anti-abortion protesters who were charged with FACE Act violations, marking the latest in a series of clemency actions
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.