At the March for Life rally, the president said he was ‘proud to be a participant’ in the Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v. Wade in 2022

President Donald Trump issued a memo Friday evening that would reinstate two global family planning policies and rescinded two Biden administration memos — his first major foray into regulating reproductive health after deemphasizing the issue on the campaign trail last year.

The move, announced in a presidential memorandum Friday, revives a policy known as the “global gag rule” that Trump and many other Republican presidents have implemented. Already, contractors that receive U.S. foreign aid money cannot use it to directly support abortion services. But they can tell people the option is available.

The president reinstated a policy blocking U.S. aid to foreign organizations that use funds for abortion. He also overturned two Biden executive orders, contending they violated the law barring federal funding for abortion.

In the early days of his second term in office, Donald Trump has been cagey about where his administration will take abortion policy.

One recipient of a pardon, Lauren Handy, led the blockade of an abortion clinic in D.C. When police arrested her in 2022, authorities removed five fetuses from the home where she was staying. This was not normal or sane or reasonable, yet it was done to make a statement about Trump as an opponent of abortion.

Here are some of the actions Trump’s nominees could take on abortion, if confirmed, from HHS to the Justice Department.

Thousands of anti-abortion activists are coming to Washington for the annual March for Life, seeking to build momentum and maintain pressure on legislators.

Despite attempts to paint himself as a moderate on abortion rights on the campaign trail, the Republican president is now leaning into his anti-abortion base once again.

The U.S. Justice Department's new leadership under President Donald Trump ordered cutbacks on Friday on federal prosecutions of people accused of blocking access to reproductive health centers and abortion clinics,

An anti-abortion leader who made headlines in 2022 after Washington, D.C., authorities discovered fetal remains inside her apartment was one of several activists pardoned by President Donald Trump on Thursday.