Anti-abortion groups are pressing the Trump Justice Department and Food and Drug Administration to quickly reverse Biden administration policies on abortion pills and impose a clampdown, including the use of a 19th-century anti-obscenity law to block the mailing of the drugs.
This month, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy (D) announced that the state will build up a supply of medications used in abortions. New Jersey joins other blue states, including Massachusetts and California, in stockpiling mifepristone in anticipation of Trump’s new administration.
President Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance spoke at the anti-abortion movement’s annual March for Life rally on Friday.
In the early days of his second term in office, Donald Trump has been cagey about where his administration will take abortion policy.
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.
Vice President JD Vance led a list Republican luminaries who voiced strong agreement with the anti-abortion positions of participants at the annual March for Life amid cold and snowy weather Friday in Washington,
Aboard Air Force One, while en route to view wildfire devastation in California, President Trump signed a series of executive actions aimed at preventing the use of federal taxpayer dollars
Today, we can confidently say that there is no state in the United States with more pro-life or protective pro-life laws than Idaho,” a speaker said.
The bill would require that infants born alive after an attempted abortion receive the same protection as any newborn baby, and threaten medical providers with prison time for failing to resuscitate them.
Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, a Trump appointee, allowed three states to go forward with a lawsuit that seeks to change how mifepristone is used.
The new Trump administration could put a stop to pending litigation on the abortion pill mifepristone and other federal abortion policies through changes at the Department of Health and Human Services, according to a top anti-abortion lawyer involved in several pending cases.