An internet site created by the Biden administration simply after the Supreme Courtroom overturned Roe v. Wade has been shut down by the Trump administration. A Biden-Harris marketing campaign rally in January 2024 is pictured.
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On the second day of the second Trump administration, a search for the time period “abortion” on the web site for the federal Division of Well being and Human Providers brings up 166 outcomes. The prime hit is from January 24, 2020, throughout President Trump’s first time period, and is about how California violated the rights of two spiritual organizations that needed to supply well being plans that excluded protection for abortion.
Attempting to kind the outcomes to see the newest gadgets first returns no hyperlinks in any respect and the message reads “search unreachable.”
A web site the Biden administration launched after the Supreme Courtroom overturned Roe v. Wade, ReproductiveRights.gov, is now a damaged hyperlink. (An archived model of the location is nonetheless viewable by way of the Web Archive.)
These modifications to the knowledge out there on authorities web sites displays quiet strikes on the a part of the brand new Trump administration on abortion.
Abortion was not talked about in Trump’s inaugural handle. It was additionally not a spotlight of the handfuls of government actions he took after being sworn in.
Throughout Trump’s first time period, “conscience rights” dominated the day when it got here to abortion, which was nonetheless authorized in all states. Rights have been oriented in the direction of spiritual organizations and suppliers that objected to abortion. The HHS.gov web site seems to have been rapidly edited to replicate that view once more.
The Biden administration held that abortion is a person proper. Now, content material that displays that place is difficult to search out on federal authorities web sites. Some materials continues to be on-line, nonetheless, together with a 2022 motion plan to “shield and strengthen reproductive care.”
The now-defunct ReproductiveRights.gov web site included details about individuals’s rights to contraception, abortion remedy and procedures, and emergency and preventive care whereas pregnant. It additionally directed individuals to AbortionFinder for details about state restrictions and monetary help for individuals looking for abortions.
Trump’s alternative to guide HHS, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has not but had his affirmation listening to scheduled. Till final 12 months, Kennedy took a really completely different stance on abortion than Trump, stating he was firmly in favor of abortion entry. It’s an open query whether or not anti-abortion Republicans within the Senate will help him.