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.
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.
Trump expands Reagan-era abortion policy, cutting billions in global health aid to groups that provide abortion services.
DOJ directive released on Friday states it will limit enforcement of federal law to cases involving death, injury or serious property damage.
Thousands of anti-abortion activists are coming to Washington for the annual March for Life, seeking to build momentum and maintain pressure on legislators.
President Donald Trump pardoned Michigan activists who blocked a woman from getting medical help after learning her fetus had fatal abnormalities.
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.
Here are some of the actions Trump’s nominees could take on abortion, if confirmed, from HHS to the Justice Department.
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.