President Donald Trump's campaign-trail promise to leave abortion regulation to the states lasted just a few days into his presidency.
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He issued executive orders on Friday that revive some anti-abortion policies from his first administration — including restrictions on federal funding for family planning and other health programs abroad that discuss abortion as an option or provide referrals for the procedure.
The president signed the executive orders hours after addressing the annual anti-abortion March for Life in a prerecorded video that included no mention that the policies were coming, provoking frustration from some of his supporters who feared the issue would not be a priority to the new administration. Vice President JD Vance, who spoke at the march in person, similarly did not mention them or other policy promises, but assured the crowd that Trump would be “the most pro-family, most pro-life American president of our lifetimes.”
The orders will likely go a long way to calm fears in the anti-abortion movement about Trump’s commitment to their cause — fears he recently fanned by not taking these actions in his first couple days in office and by nominating Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a onetime supporter of abortion rights, to lead the Department of Health and Human Services.
Marjorie Dannenfelser, the president of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, called the executive orders “a big win for babies and mothers.”
“With this action the president is getting American taxpayers out of the abortion business and restoring sanity to the federal government,” she said.
The programs impacted by the executive orders — which were first reported by RealClearPolitics — include overseas health organizations that distribute contraception and help combat HIV and other sexually transmitted infections. Grantees were already barred from using any U.S. taxpayer money for abortions, but sometimes used separate funding to provide them.
One of the executive orders repeals a pair of Biden administration orders from the last few years that encouraged government agencies to look for ways “to protect and expand access to abortion care, including medication abortion” as well as “the full range of reproductive healthcare services,” including birth control and emergency contraception. The order argues that it will ensure enforcement of the Hyde amendment — a decades-old budget rider that bars any federal funding of abortion.
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I assume no one is surprised
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I am not surprised at all. \_0_/
Absolutely no one.
Lol. Abortion funding for other countries is not a state issue. How desperate can you be ?
None of these orders impact a state right to set its own abortion laws, which is what he promised. He did not promise to "expand access to abortion care."
I know nuance can be tough for some progressives, but this is truly pathetic.
who asked him to expand anything ?
He did this to stroke the right to life marchers.
He repealed an order directing the government to do so. It's in your link. Somehow, by repealing it, the author thinks he broke his promise. Don't ask me to explain the nonsense.
e did this to stroke the right to life marchers.
So what? Never fear, you can still abort fully viable babies in Illinois. Nothing has changed.
So some else expanded it. He could have done nothing, but that is not what the March For Life wanted.
He will do whatever he thinks is expedient and after speaking to the anti abortion crowd he stroked them.
The states do not have jurisdiction over Federal spending. Trump's restrictions are limited to spending. Trump is not issuing any sort of restrictions on abortion or familay planning.