Trump Still Has An Anti-Abortion Agenda. It’s Just Sneakier Than Before.
HuffPost
There's been a great deal of chaos in Trump’s first 100 days — and it's allowed for his attack on reproductive health to go under the radar.
It’s hard to keep track of the damage President Donald Trump has done in his first 100 days in office, from unlawfully deporting migrants and some U.S. citizens and declaring a war on transgender children to dismantling federal agencies and imposing tariffs that cratered the stock market.
But one dark fear has not yet been realized: an aggressive push to effectively outlaw abortion nationwide. There was widespread concern in 2024 — based on the positions of many people in Trump’s orbit — that his administration might start enforcing the centuries-old Comstock Act or have the Food and Drug Administration pull approval for abortion drugs. While that hasn’t come to pass, the Trump administration has chipped away at choice in less visible ways and done substantial damage to federal reproductive health services.
Not too long ago, Trump was an unapologetic anti-abortion advocate who pandered often to his evangelical far-right base. He openly celebrated his role in repealing 50 years of federal abortion protections, telling Fox News that “it’s a beautiful thing to watch” states ban abortion. But once it became clear that abortion bans are inherently unpopular, Trump shied away from his record: softening his rhetoric around reproductive rights, waffling on a national abortion ban and peddling his lie that “everyone” wanted Roe v. Wade repealed.
Since winning the presidential election, Trump has continued this stance of purported moderation. But he still has an anti-abortion agenda — his administration has just gotten better at hiding it.
“The administration wants you to think that they are not paying attention to repro and that abortion is an issue left to the states … but that is completely untrue,” Ianthe Metzger, senior director of advocacy communications at Planned Parenthood Federation of America, told HuffPost.
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