Federal Website on Reproductive Rights Taken Down on Trump’s First Day

As part of the incoming Trump administration’s purge of data they’d rather people don’t have access to, the reproductiverights.gov website has been taken offline, the first See CBS News.

The site was launched by the Biden administration after the 2022 Supreme Court decision to overturn it Roe v. WadeMaintaining federal protections that give people the right to access abortion. The site, which was administered by the Department of Health and Human Services, provides information about abortion rights, informs people about what care is available to them and how to advocate for access to that care. It also provides information on a number of other sexual and reproductive health services, including breast and cervical cancer screening, prenatal care, and HIV screening. when a Archive version of the site Accessible through the Internet Archive, information is no longer hosted on dedicated federal domains.

including its reversal RoLaws regarding abortion care are left up to the states—meaning access varies greatly depending on where a person lives. According to the Guttmacher Institute41 states have some restrictions on abortion access, including 12 complete bans on health care. Access may vary depending on how far along a person is in the pregnancy process, and exceptions may or may not be available.

This is exactly the kind of situation where you want a regularly updated database that provides easy-to-navigate and understand care options maintained by experts. So of course, that’s gone now.

This should not come as much of a surprise. During his first term, Trump led a similar purge of science-based information hosted on government websites, primarily targeting climate change information. During his first day in office in 2017, he All references to climate change have been removed From whitehouse.gov, Pages related to climate change have been removed From the websites of the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of the Interior, and the Department of Energy, they have basically tried to bury any suggestion that climate change is happening or will affect humans. Fortunately, if you ignore it, it fixes it go away…the right?

However, the reality is that the takedown of reproductiverights.gov and other federal sites is a bit of virtue signaling from the Trump administration. This is not the website that dictates the reality of reproductive rights, and there are plenty of third parties out there Planned Parenthood, Center for Reproductive RightsAnd Guttmacher Institute Those who provide information on abortion care. Hell, you can still find information on abortion rights on government websites thanks to the likes of the people New York Congressman Dan Goldmanwho maintains an inventory of resources for his constituents.

But the decision to take down the site on day one shows where this administration’s priorities lie. Spanish language page for the White House Came down yesterdayToo, as it did Pages refer to LGBTQ rights. If you want to know who’s in the crosshairs, just look at whose data they have access to.