President Donald Trump delivered his Day One promise to the anti-abortion movement four days into his second term: He pardoned nearly two dozen anti-abortion activists convicted of federal offenses that included using physical force to block access to and invade abortion clinics,
President Donald Trump made his largest moves on abortion on Friday since being inaugurated, signing a pair of executive orders that meant to reestablish his opposition to the procedure after a leftward pivot on the campaign trail.
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.
In the early days of his second term in office, Donald Trump has been cagey about where his administration will take abortion policy.
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.
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.
Trump pardoned Handy and her nine co-defendants: Jonathan Darnel of Virginia; Jay Smith, John Hinshaw and William Goodman, all of New York; Joan Bell of New Jersey; Paulette Harlow and Jean Marshall, both of Massachusetts; Heather Idoni of Michigan; and Herb Geraghty of Pennsylvania.
President Donald Trump pardoned Michigan activists who blocked a woman from getting medical help after learning her fetus had fatal abnormalities.
Here are some of the actions Trump’s nominees could take on abortion, if confirmed, from HHS to the Justice Department.
President Donald Trump vowed to support anti-abortion-rights protesters in his second term as tens of thousands of demonstrators rallied in Washington on Friday for the annual March for Life.
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,
Trump pardoned nearly two dozen anti-abortion protesters who were charged with FACE Act violations, marking the latest in a series of clemency actions