In the early days of his second term in office, Donald Trump has been cagey about where his administration will take abortion policy.

Sen. Jeanne Shaheen said, "Again and again, at every turn, some Republicans and the Trump administration have pushed forward dangerous policies intended to threaten access to abortion care. I think it's just shameful.

Since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in the Dobbs decision in 2022, March for Life organizers have also encouraged anti-abortion activists to focus their attention on statehouses, where decisions over the legality of abortion are now being made.

Republican lawmakers reintroduced a piece of legislation that would ban the use of federal funds for abortions or health coverage that includes abortion this week. If passed, the bill would essentially codify a decades-old policy called the Hyde Amendment which has banned the use of any federal dollars on abortions since 1977.

The move, announced in a presidential memorandum Friday, revives a policy known as the “global gag rule” that Trump and many other Republican presidents have implemented. Already, contractors that receive U.S. foreign aid money cannot use it to directly support abortion services. But they can tell people the option is available.

Texas abortion restrictions are among the strictest in the nation, banning the procedure unless a pregnant person has a "life-threatening condition."

On the 52nd anniversary of Roe v. Wade, Arizona Democrats called on their Republican colleagues to support repealing anti-abortion laws that remain on the books, saying that voters want guaranteed access to the procedure,

President Donald Trump has issued a “full and unconditional pardon” to Washington, DC, police lieutenant Andrew Zabavsky and officer Terence Sutton for their roles in the death of 20-year-old Karon Hylton-Brown, a case that drew protests on the heels of the murder of George Floyd.

The Born-Alive Act passed the House of Representatives on Thursday, with one Dmeocrat joining Republicans to advance the bill.

House and Senate committees took the first testimony of legislation dealing with abortion in the 2025 session, one to create a criminal penalty for transporting a minor to get the procedure without parental consent and the other to mandate the general reporting of abortion statistics.

President Donald Trump issued a memo Friday evening that would reinstate two global family planning policies and rescinded two Biden administration memos — his first major foray into regulating reproductive health after deemphasizing the issue on the campaign trail last year.