May 9, 2025
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#Fight4HER's Repro Rundown
In the first 100 days of Donald Trump’s second term [[link removed]] , he has made relentless attacks on reproductive health here in the U.S. and all over the world.
Since January, the Trump administration has frozen $65.8 million dollars in Title X funding [[link removed]] , including to all nine U.S. Planned Parenthood affiliates. He has green-lighted massive cuts to Medicaid and SNAP in order to subsidize billionaire tax cuts, and threatened our right to life-saving abortion care by refusing to defend the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA).
Trump has also dismantled global maternal and child health programs made possible by USAID. These programs provided critical care including family planning, management of childbirth complications, and child nutrition services. Within days of taking office, Trump reinstated the treacherous Global Gag Rule, withdrew the U.S. from the World Health Organization, and ended funding to the United Nations Population Fund.
Meanwhile, Mother’s Day is this weekend, and no one is more excited to “celebrate” the notion of motherhood than the pronatalist, anti-family Trump administration. While they tout a proposed $5,000 “baby bonus” for families here in the U.S., they refuse to endorse paid family leave and have threatened to defund Head Start, the program that offers childcare and preschool education to low-income families.
Let’s be very clear: Trump's first 100 days have been a war against mothers everywhere. Increased restrictions on reproductive rights and maternal health care make motherhood a coerced and dangerous path.
This weekend, let’s stand up for mothers everywhere by demanding our members of Congress take action to reinstate family planning and maternal and child health funding!
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The Rundown
Abortion
* The Trump administration continues to undermine reproductive health services and abortion access in the U.S., even without openly pursuing a national abortion ban: Trump Still Has An Anti-Abortion Agenda. It’s Just Sneakier Than Before. [[link removed]] (Huffpost, April 29 2025).
* The FDA is considering reimposing restrictions on the abortion pill mifepristone amid pressure from anti-abortion advocates and political leaders: FDA Leaves the Door Open to Reimposing Restrictions on Abortion Pills [[link removed].] (Notus, April 28, 2025).
* Abortion “abolitionists” rooted in Christian fundamentalism and emboldened by Trump-era policies have introduced bills in 13 states to classify abortion as murder, aiming to expand fetal personhood and push extreme laws despite little legislative success so far: ‘Abolitionists’ Push Legislation to Criminalize All Abortions as Homicide [[link removed]] (The American Prospect, May 5, 2025).
Bronatalisim
* The Trump administration’s push to raise the U.S. birth rate through measures including a $5,000 "baby bonus" and a "National Medal of Motherhood" has sparked backlash from people who value bodily autonomy: The Dark History of the Far Right’s Natalism [[link removed]] (Vogue, May 3, 2025).
* The administration's push for a baby boom through bonuses and medals has drawn sharp criticism for ignoring economic realities, cutting child health research, and failing to support families: More Babies, but Little Support for Them? [[link removed]] (The New York Times, April 30, 2025).
* “Traditional” families are now a minority in the U.S., but but Trump's pronatalist agenda promotes them exclusively, ignoring many of the diverse modern households and risking policies that fail to support most Americans who want children: The Pro-Family Policy This Nation Actually Needs [[link removed]] (The Atlantic, May 5, 2025).
International Family Planning
* Trump's freeze on U.S. global health aid has caused an estimated 8,000 deaths of women and girls, with potentially 34,000 more by the end of this year, as millions are denied access to contraception and maternal health services: Trump’s cuts to contraception will kill ‘tens of thousands’ of women [[link removed]] (The Independent, May 3, 2025).
* The Department of Government Efficiency and the Trump administration's cuts to USAID are devastating maternal health care, crippling midwives’ ability to serve vulnerable patients: Why midwives are worried [[link removed]] (NPR, May 5, 2025).
Feeling fired up by the Repro Rundown ? Take action now by urging our members of Congress to restore global health funding!
Restore International Family Planning Funding Today! [[link removed]]
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