Trump promised to leave abortion to the states. He capped his first week by targeting reproductive rights
Trump promised to leave abortion to the states. He capped his first week by targeting reproductive rights
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At the March for Life rally, the president said he was ‘proud to be a participant’ in the Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v. Wade in 2022. President Donald Trump has wasted no time in carrying out his anti-abortion agenda. The president signed a pair of executive orders Friday reviving two anti-abortion policies from his first term - despite his pledges that abortion should be left to the state’s discretion.
![[People attend the annual March for Life rally near the Supreme Court. Hours after the rally, Trump revived a pair of anti-abortion policies from his first term]](https://static.independent.co.uk/2025/01/25/17/SEI237218907.jpg)
To end his first week, Trump resurrected the enforcement of the Hyde Amendment, which bars federal funds from being used to pay for abortions. Former President Biden had reversed the policy after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022. In his executive order, he said: “The previous administration disregarded this established, commonsense policy by embedding forced taxpayer funding of elective abortions in a wide variety of Federal programs.”.
In a second order, Trump reinstated the so-called “global gag rule,” that prohibits U.S. taxpayer dollars from funding foreign organizations that provide abortions. This move will be devastating to women and girls across the world, advocates warned.
Speaking in a prerecorded video at the March for Life rally on Friday, Trump said he was “proud to be a participant” in the Supreme Court’s 2022 Dobbs decision, which reversed Roe v. Wade. He called the 1973 decision, which established the constitutional right to an abortion, a “historic wrong” that led to “50 years of division and anger.”.
