Trump's federal health website scrubs 'abortion' search results

Source: NPR

January 21, 2025 4:22 PM ET


On the second day of the second Trump administration, a search for the term "abortion" on the website for the federal Department of Health and Human Services brings up 166 results. The top hit is from January 24, 2020, during President Trump's first term, and is about how California violated the rights of two religious organizations that wanted to offer health plans that excluded coverage for abortion.

Trying to sort the results to see the most recent items first returns no links at all and the message reads "search unreachable."

A site the Biden administration launched after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, ReproductiveRights.gov, is now a broken link. (An archived version of the site is still viewable through the Internet Archive.) These changes to the information available on government websites reflects quiet moves on the part of the new Trump administration on abortion.

Abortion was not mentioned or referenced in Trump's inaugural address. It was also not a focus of the dozens of executive actions he took after being sworn in. And a series of policy moves on abortion that are usually "almost automatic" when a Republican president takes office were notably missing from Trump's first orders of business, says Mary Ziegler, law professor at UC Davis who has written extensively on abortion.

Read more: https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/01/21/nx-s1-5269875/trump-abortion-hhs-reproductive-rights