Posted on 01/22/2025 12:46:35 PM PST by Morgana
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 August 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.
Ugh this national horror show needed to end a half century ago.
” 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.”
These people are reaching. My current wife twice has had to use mifepristone for first term miscarriages. It is the go to drug to deal with a miscarriage in the first trimester. Why? Because it is vastly safer than going in surgically and doing a D&C on the woman which risks way more damage to the uterus than the pills. So riddle me this Batman why is it the go to safe choice for causing the body to push out the pregnancy products in the first trimester for miscarriages but o so dangerous for a woman to use the same drug to push the same pregnancy products out by choice. Hint it is not any different from a scientific perspective. Forget emotions and beliefs I could care less what people opinion is the science is clear the pills are the safest way to get those products out of the human body.period.full.stop.
This is a state issue stay the F out of it fedgov lest the Supreme Court smack you down yet again. The tenth amendment makes this clearly a state issue.
Burns my ass that I have to pay for any damn body’s abortion.
And under dementia Joe we are paying for abortions here as well as in other countries.
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