Trump Immediately Shuts Down Biden-Era Website Promoting Abortion

Among its first acts in office, the Trump-Vance administration closed a federal government website opened by the Biden administration to promote abortion-on-demand at taxpayers’ expense. Users noted the website ReproductiveRights.gov had gone offline on Monday afternoon, shortly after Chief Justice John Roberts swore in Donald Trump as the 47th president of the United States.

“Reproductive health care, including access to birth control and safe and legal abortion care, is an essential part of your health and well-being,” the moribund website claimed. It also erroneously insisted the abortion pill, mifepristone, “is safe and effective when used as directed,” although mifepristone produced 35 emergency room visits for every 100 abortions in 2015.

The Biden-Harris administration announced the website’s debut on Aug. 3, 2022, in response to the Supreme Court’s pro-life ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. The website came amid a flurry of measures to promote abortion-on-demand in spite of the Supreme Court ruling. The administration also formed the Reproductive Rights Task Force, led by then-Associate Attorney General Vanita Gupta, inside the Justice Department to crack down on peaceful sidewalk counselors.

The federal page linked to a website that referred readers to a list of abortionists in their state or region. “If you need help paying for an abortion, abortion funds may be able to provide financial assistance,” the federal website stated. 

Pro-life advocates greeted the taxpayer-funded website’s closure with enthusiasm. “Could this be the start of Making America Pro-Life Again?!” asked Kristan Hawkins of Students for Life of America. “Let’s go!” enthused the Texas Alliance for Life.

The website went offline the same day news broke that Cecile Richards, the CEO of Planned Parenthood Federation of America from 2006 to 2018, died at the age of 67 from a glioblastoma, an aggressive form of brain cancer. During her 12 years leading the nation’s largest abortion business, “Richards increased the number of abortions Planned Parenthood carried out each year by almost 70,000,” wrote Mary Szoch, director of the Center for Human Dignity at Family Research Council.

Richards presided over Planned Parenthood when undercover investigative journalists David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt exposed the group’s harvesting and sale of aborted babies’ organs and tissue.

Richards’s replacement, Leana Wen, advocated for vaccine passports during the COVID-19 pandemic shortly after leaving Planned Parenthood to become a CNN analyst.

Originally published by The Washington Stand

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