Repro Red Flags: Agency Watch

President Donald Trump has stacked his administration with anti-reproductive rights officials responsible for leading federal agencies that directly impact access to reproductive health care—including abortion, birth control, IVF, and maternal health care. 

Mobilizing against the Trump administration’s anti-repro appointments and actions.

The Center for Reproductive Rights’ Repro Red Flags: Agency Watch tool  shares research on these appointees, their anti-repro backgrounds, and the powers of the agencies they oversee. Importantly, it also serves as a repository of key Trump administration policies related to reproductive health.

In his first year in office, President Trump and his extremist appointees have launched a sweeping and coordinated attack to make it harder to access sexual and reproductive health care and to undermine our fundamental human rights. Learn more about these attacks, emerging themes and what to expect next:

Appointees

Assumed Office Paula Stannard

Paula Stannard

  • Director of the Office for Civil Rights (OCR), HHS
    • Department of Health and Human Services
    • Office for Civil Rights (OCR)
Paula Stannard
Officially Nominated Mark Walker

Mark Walker

  • Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom
    • Department of State
    • The Office of International Religious Freedom
Mark Walker
Assumed Office Natalie Dodson

Natalie Dodson

  • Senior Advisor, Office of Population Affairs
    • Department of Health and Human Services
    • Office of Population Affairs
Natalie Dodson
Assumed Office Andrew Guernsey

Andrew Guernsey

  • Senior Policy Advisor, Domestic Policy Council (DPC)
    • The Office of Policy Development
    • White House (Executive Office of the President of the United States)
Andrew Guernsey
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Departments

Agency Watch focuses on appointments within the administration that have a broad impact on access to reproductive health care via their policies and programs, such as White House staff, as well as the Department of Health and Human Services, Department of State, and the Department of Justice.

White House
U.S Department of State
U.S Department of Health & Human Services
Department of Justice
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)
U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

Executive Actions

We are tracking executive actions such as Executive Orders, Presidential Memoranda, Proclamations, and Statements of Administration Policy, as well as significant agency actions, guidance, and memoranda. We also monitor ongoing rulemaking, highlighting relevant regulations and opportunities for public input.

See the executive actions we’re tracking

Oversight Actions

A healthy, functioning government relies on transparency and a strong accountability system to ensure that it is working for the people, all the people. The Center is conducting oversight to hold the Trump administration accountable for its actions by demanding transparency, to identify and expose wrongdoing.

Explore the Center’s oversight actions