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Trump Already Ditching Campaign Pledge to Leave Abortion to States With New Executive Orders

PRO-LIFE AGENDA

The orders were signed mere hours after the anti-abortion March for Life in Washington D.C., during which both Trump and his vice president JD Vance offered speeches.

Marchers make their way past the U.S. Capitol during the annual anti-abortion March for Life rally on January 24, 2025 in Washington, D.C.
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“The states will determine by vote or legislation” what abortion rights they want, then-presidential candidate Donald Trump said in April 2024. “It is up to the states to decide,” he claimed in October. And in late November, after he’d been elected president, his campaign reiterated how he “has long been consistent in supporting the rights of states to make decisions on abortion.” But after less than one week in office, President Trump has already thrust the federal government back into the middle of the abortion rights debate—and this time on the global stage: As part of a flurry of executive actions rolling out as his second term gets up and running, Trump on Friday signed two orders to limit women’s access to contraception and abortion. The first action repealed Biden-era policies that encouraged federal agencies to support and expand the availability of such services; the second restored restrictions on foreign organizations that receive any US government financing or grants from promoting abortion care. At least one nonprofit told Politico that losing such funds would keep it from providing contraception to millions of women.

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