CMS rescinds Biden-era guidance on EMTALA
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has rescinded Biden-era guidance documents on the Emergency Medical Treatment & Labor Act (EMTALA).
Repro Red Flags: Agency Watch will serve as a repository of key Trump administration policies related to reproductive health, including those impacting abortion access, maternal health, and assisted reproduction. This resource will track executive actions such as Executive Orders, Presidential Memoranda, Proclamations, and Statements of Administration Policy as well as significant agency actions, guidance, and memoranda. It will also monitor ongoing rulemaking, highlighting relevant regulations and opportunities for public input.
Importantly, this is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all anti-repro policy actions. Instead, this resource will help to connect the dots between key personnel and the harmful policies they promulgate, focusing primarily on major developments within priority Departments.
Explore ongoing executive action updates below and make sure to check back for future opportunities to make your voice heard.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has rescinded Biden-era guidance documents on the Emergency Medical Treatment & Labor Act (EMTALA).
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has removed the COVID vaccine from the recommended immunization schedule for healthy pregnant people.
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) rescinded multiple informal guidance documents.
The Office of Management and Budget released President Trump’s “skinny budget,” a topline discretionary budget request.
President Trump signed an Executive Order establishing a “Religious Liberty Commission” to support the administration’s efforts to enforce the “robust protections for religious liberty enshrined in Federal law.”
The Department of Government Efficiency implemented additional protocols for reviewing and approving health care grants in key agencies across the Department of Health and Human Services.
Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the Department of Government Efficiency instituted mass layoffs across critical agencies like the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The Trump administration has frozen millions of dollars in funds earmarked for 16 Title X grant recipients.
The Trump administration detailed its plans to finalize the State Department’s takeover of the historically independent agency.
President Trump issued a Presidential Memorandum to the Attorney General and Secretary of Homeland Security directing them to impose sanctions or refer for disciplinary action any lawyer or legal entity who has, in their opinion, acted unethically, brought frivolous lawsuits, or otherwise violated professional conduct rules in lawsuits against the government.
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a proposed rule that would limit protections provided by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA).
The Department of Justice revealed it will reverse course and move to dismiss a case brought by the Biden Administration challenging Idaho’s abortion ban, which is one of the strictest in the nation.
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) rescinded a long-standing policy titled “Public Participation in Rule Making,” also known as the Richardson Waiver.
Ultimately, nearly 10,000 government contracts worth about $60 billion in humanitarian work abroad will be terminated.
The Trump administration’s new notice rescinds the previous guidance in an effort to carry out the President’s Executive Order restricting access to gender-affirming care for young people.
President Trump signed an Executive Order directing the Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy to submit policy recommendations within 90 days on how to protect access to IVF and make it more affordable.
President Trump signed two executive orders addressing faith in the public sphere.
President Trump issued an executive order announcing his decision to leave the United Nations Human Rights Council and United Nations Relief and Works Agency.
The systematic dismantling of USAID effectively eliminates the agency’s ability to operate and function in the US and globally.
According to CNN, Secretary of State Marco Rubio has become the acting administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).
The Department of Defense (DoD) has issued another memorandum rescinding reproductive health care protections for servicemembers.
NPR reported that the Trump administration had scrubbed the Department of Health and Human Services’ website of any mentions of abortion that discussed protections for abortion and reproductive health care services.
The Department of Defense issued a memorandum rescinding reproductive health care protections for servicemembers and their dependents.
The Trump administration issued an Executive Order directing agencies to restrict access to gender-affirming care for individuals under 19 years of age.
The Trump administration has ordered approximately 60 senior executive and Foreign Service employees of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to go on administrative leave effective immediately.
The Trump administration has taken various actions attempting to freeze all federal assistance funding, putting access to vital health and nutrition programs at risk for millions of people across the country.
The State Department announced its immediate intention to rejoin the so-called “Geneva Consensus Declaration,” an anti-reproductive rights and anti-LGBTQ political statement.
President Trump issued a Presidential Memorandum reinstating a harmful and regressive policy that restricts U.S. foreign assistance to organizations providing, counseling, or advocating for legal abortion services.
President Trump fired as many as 17 agency inspectors general (IGs), including at the Departments of State, Health and Human Services, Defense, Veterans Affairs, Education, Housing and Urban Development, and the Environmental Protection Agency, among others.
The decision to cease FACE Act enforcement, along with the President’s decision to pardon 23 people convicted under the FACE Act, is an explicit green light to block clinics and deny care to people who need it.
President Trump issued an Executive Order revoking two Biden-era executive orders designed to protect and expand access to reproductive healthcare.
Presidential pardon of 23 people who were convicted of violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act (FACE Act).
The Trump administration issued a Statement of Administration Policy in support of H.R. 21.
Executive order mandating that the federal government recognizes only two genders, “male and female.”
President Trump has signed an executive order to begin the process of withdrawing the U.S. from the World Health Organization (WHO).
President Trump issued an executive order pausing U.S. foreign development assistance for 90 days amidst a review of “programmatic efficiencies and alignment with U.S. foreign policy.”
The Trump administration took down ReproductiveRights.gov, a web page launched by the Biden administration that included information about reproductive health care, abortion, and patient rights.
President Trump issued an Executive Order attempting to restrict birthright citizenship based on parental immigration status, creating legal uncertainty for affected children and families.
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