Nearly one year after President Trump’s second inauguration, the Center for Reproductive Rights has released new analysis documenting how the Trump administration has further decimated domestic abortion access during his first year back in office.
The report details the most damaging actions taken by the administration, which:
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Eliminated nationwide protections for abortion by:
- Withdrawing federal guidancethat directed hospitals to perform life-saving abortions in emergency rooms, even though deadly pregnancy complications have increased as much as 50% in some states that banned abortion.
- Green-lighting violence against abortion clinics by pardoning violent anti-abortion protestors who were convicted of violating the FACE Act, which the President has said he will no longer enforce to protect abortion clinics. Violence against clinics has drastically increasedsince Roe v. Wade fell.
- Weakening data privacy rulesprotecting abortion patients.
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Further restricted abortion access (even in states where it is legal) by:
- Implementing a new policythat would prevent veterans on VA health insurance from having abortions even in cases of rape, incest, or severe health risks.
- Forcing clinics to close or reduce services nationwide by taking away their Medicaid funding. About 50 Planned Parenthood health centers have since closedand nearly 1,000 patients in Maine have lost their primary care.
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Sowed distrust in proven science to pave the way for more attacks, by:
- Launching a politically motivated FDA investigationinto the abortion pill, which could make it much harder to access.
- Falsely calling birth control an “abortifacient”to justify its plan to destroy millions of dollars in contraception headed for African countries. The destruction of these supplies could result in 1.5 million unintended pregnancies and thousands of preventable maternal deaths worldwide.
Published January 5, 2026 by the Center for Reproductive Rights