Trump’s First 100 Days: 5 Attacks on Reproductive Rights You Might Have Missed

As the Trump administration “floods the zone” every day with outrageous actions—whether abandoning global allies, gutting federal agencies, or even dismantling the very pillars of democracy—the issue of reproductive rights has yet to dominate the headlines.

But in ways big and small, President Trump and his anti-abortion acolytes have spent the past three months chipping away at those rights and restricting access to reproductive health care, harming millions in the U.S. and around the world.

The Center for Reproductive Rights has been closely monitoring the administration’s every anti-repro action—and today issued a new report, Repro Red Flags: Trump’s First 100 Days, detailing the administration’s sweeping attacks on reproductive rights and health.

5 Attacks on Reproductive Rights You Might Have Missed

Endangering your right to life-saving abortion care.

The Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) is a federal law requiring hospitals to provide stabilizing treatment to all patients in emergency situations—which includes life-saving abortion care. But the Trump administration (unlike the Biden administration) is refusing to defend this law against a conflicting, extreme state abortion ban.

So now, if you have a severe pregnancy complication in one of the dozen states banning abortion, President Trump has given the hospital emergency room a green light to ignore this federal law.

>Read more here.

Restricting your access to reproductive health services at community clinics.

If you get reproductive health care services from a federally funded clinic, your access to that care is at risk. The Trump administration has frozen millions in funding from Title X, the only federal program dedicated to providing millions of Americans with a wide range of family planning and preventive reproductive health care services—including birth control, infertility services, testing and treatment for sexually transmitted infections (STIs), breast and cervical cancer screenings, HPV vaccinations, HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), and more.

Clinics across the country have already begun to close in response to the funding freeze, jeopardizing patient health.

>Read more here.

Censoring medically sound information about your reproductive health.

Within hours of taking office, the Trump administration began scrubbing information on reproductive health and rights from government websites. It took down ReproductiveRights.gov, a vital resource about how to access reproductive health care, and erased all mention of protections for abortion care and reproductive health care privacy from the Department of Health and Human Services website. A data collection program that helped to improve maternal and infant health has also been terminated.

>Read more here.

Jeopardizing your ability to safely visit a reproductive health clinic.

The Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act was enacted to protect reproductive health care patients and providers from violence and harassment by anti-rights extremists. But the Trump administration has largely stopped enforcing this law despite relentless bomb threats, stalking of clinic staff, patient harassment, and attempts to obstruct clinic entrances.

President Trump also pardoned 23 people convicted under the FACE Act for crimes like harassing and attacking patients and clinics—sending a clear message that, instead of protecting patients and providers, the administration is tolerating this violent behavior.

>Read more here.

Preventing you from getting your day in court.

By threatening lawyers who dare to challenge his administration’s actions and policies, President Trump is endangering the rule of law and restricting lawyers’ abilities to effectively represent their clients—especially when defending and enforcing their clients’ civil rights.

What’s the President’s real goal? To stop you and all Americans from fighting back when your fundamental freedoms—including your reproductive rights—are violated.

>Read more here.

The harm President Trump has done to reproductive rights and health care access in just 100 days is real and extensive—and these five U.S. attacks are just the tip of the iceberg. Globally, the administration has also jeopardized health, gender equality, and human rights.

Read Repro Red Flags: Trump’s First 100 Days to get the details on these and other actions.

The Center for Reproductive Rights will continue to monitor and fight back against this administration’s dangerous actions and policies on reproductive rights and health in the U.S. and around the world. For regular updates, see the Center’s Repro Red Flags: Agency Watch tool.

Join us May 7!

The First 100 Days: What Trump’s Second Term Means for Reproductive Rights

Join the Center for an action call on May 7 at 2:00 p.m. ET / 11:00 a.m. PT as we unpack the Trump administration’s record and its impact on reproductive rights in the U.S. and around the world.

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