Despite claiming to be a “champion” for women today at a Women’s History Month event, the reality is Donald Trump doesn’t care about protecting women’s lives – instead, he put them at risk with his extreme abortion bans and attempts to end protections for emergency medical care for women around the country. Trump admitted he killed Roe v. Wade, opening the door to extreme abortion bans and threats to IVF access, all while his DOJ stopped enforcing lifesaving protections for reproductive health care access under his dangerous and unpopular Project 2025 agenda. Trump can’t hide from his extreme record — and women are dying and families are suffering because of his dangerous agenda. 

Today, Trump tried to claim he is a “champion” for women and “protecting women,” ignoring all the ways he has risked women’s lives with his extreme agenda. 

Trump: “Under the Trump administration … we’re protecting women’s rights, defending women’s dignity, and standing up for the American moms and daughters … American women have never had bigger champions than all of us in the White House, I mean it’s me …” 

After laying the groundwork to rip away reproductive freedoms on Day One, Donald Trump is still trying to ban abortion nationwide. 

The New Republic: “Trump Sneaks Dangerous Rights for Fetuses Into Executive Order”

“By describing a fetus as a person from conception, Trump has legitimized fetal personhood. … The legal language employed by fetal personhood also effectively categorizes any person receiving an abortion at any stage as a murderer.”

Daily Beast: “Trump Administration Removes Reproductive Rights Website” 

NOTUS: “Anti-abortion advocates say having allies in the cabinet will set the tone for abortion policies in the administration. …

“Trump’s agency picks could make changes that would have nationwide implications on abortion access.”

Despite Trump’s “objectively absurd” claim that he’s the “father of IVF” — Trump and his MAGA minions’ attacks on IVF were only made possible by Trump overturning Roe v. Wade.

Caitlin Huey-Burns, CBS: “Trump’s claim that he is the ‘father of IVF’ is not only false, it’s objectively absurd. In the same town hall, he said that he had to ask Sen. Katie Britt to explain IVF to him. Those two statements are completely at odds with one another.”

Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN: “‘I’m the father of IVF,’ Trump said at his Fox town hall.

“IVF was first done successfully in 1978. 

“The only reason IVF access became an issue now is b/c of Dobbs, made possible by [Trump’s] appointments.”

CNN: “How the reversal of Roe v. Wade led to the Alabama Supreme Court ruling that frozen embryos are children”

The Hill: “Senate Republicans block legislation to codify IVF access”

Republicans who voted against include: JD Vance.

REMINDER: Trump “proudly” overturned Roe v. Wade and “claimed credit” for extreme abortion bans across the country.

Trump: “I was proudly the person responsible for the ending of … Roe v. Wade.”

Trump: “For 54 years they were trying to get Roe v. Wade terminated, and I did it, and I’m proud to have done it. … Nobody else was going to get that done but me, and we did it, and we did something that was a miracle.”

Rolling Stone: “Trump Claims Credit for All Abortion Bans”

Rolling Stone: “Trump and Vance Have Backed States That Want to Surveil Pregnant Women”

Trump ended efforts to ensure pregnant women can access lifesaving, emergency medical care in the face of extreme abortion bans — a goal of his wildly unpopular Project 2025 agenda.  

Politico: “The Trump administration is dropping a yearslong legal battle with Idaho over the right to an abortion in a medical emergency one day ahead of a major hearing — reversing its stance in one of the highest-profile cases it inherited from the Biden administration. …

“The Biden administration’s lawsuit against Idaho — a case the Supreme Court weighed and punted to lower court judges last year, saying it took up the issue prematurely — argued that Idaho’s enforcement of its near-total abortion ban during medical emergencies violated Ronald Reagan-era patient protections known as EMTALA. …

“The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 …. called on President Donald Trump to end all of the Biden administration’s EMTALA investigations into hospitals that have turned pregnant patients away.”

Associated Press: “Idaho has one of the nation’s most restrictive abortion laws. The hospital has previously said the laws forced them to fly women out of state for emergency care.”

Project 2025, Mandate for Leadership, pg. 474: “HHS should rescind the [EMTALA] guidance and end CMS and state agency investigations into cases of alleged refusals … DOJ should … withdraw its enforcement lawsuits” 

Trump is also moving to rip away funding from health care providers like Planned Parenthood — another Project 2025 promise.  

Wall Street Journal: “The Trump administration is moving to freeze tens of millions of dollars in federal family-planning grants to certain organizations while it investigates whether the money was used for diversity efforts, people familiar with the matter said. …

“The groups that would be subject to the freeze include Planned Parenthood affiliates, the people familiar with the matter said. …

“The freeze, which could be made public as soon as this week, would suspend funding meant to support, in the U.S., pregnancy testing, provision of contraception, treatment of sexually transmitted infections and evaluation and counseling for infertility. …

“The freeze would partially fulfill a longtime conservative goal of defunding Planned Parenthood” 

Project 2025 Mandate for Leadership, pg. 471: “Policymakers should end taxpayer funding of Planned Parenthood and all other abortion providers” 

Planned Parenthood: “More than three-fourths of Americans (77%) have a favorable view of Planned Parenthood, with the strongest support among women, adults under 35, and Black, Latino, and AAPI communities.”

Trump opened the door to restrictions on access to contraceptives, like Plan B, that tens of millions of Americans rely on. 

Interviewer: “Do you support any restrictions on a person’s right to contraception?”

Trump: “We’re looking at that”

Interviewer: “That suggests that you may want to support some restrictions? Like the morning after pill or something?”

Trump: “You know, things really do have a lot to do with the states. And some states are going to have different policies than others.”

KKF: “The majority of females 18 to 64 (90%) have used contraception at some point in their reproductive years and many have used more than one contraceptive method throughout their lifetime (76%).” 

Trump’s funding freeze threatened grants for domestic violence and sexual assault centers as part of his reckless and dangerous funding cuts. 

Politico: “The Trump administration funding cuts aimed at ‘woke’ federal programs have now ensnared some organizations working with a particularly vulnerable group: victims of domestic violence and sexual assault.  

“Leaders of gender-based violence nonprofits said that the freeze — which is the subject of a pitched legal battle — has sparked concern about how long they can continue to provide emergency shelter, legal and crisis services to abuse victims around the country.

“Adding to fears: the Department of Justice’s Office on Violence Against Women wiped information about open funding opportunities from its website in February, directing applicants to not finalize any grant applications.” 

From Day One, Trump has attacked the Affordable Care Act, threatening protections for millions of Americans with preexisting conditions — including for pregnant women — while spending the campaign doubling down on his promise to repeal the ACA. 

White House: “The following executive actions are hereby revoked: …

“Executive Order 14009 of January 28, 2021 (Strengthening Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act).” 

KFF: “The Affordable Care Act (ACA) requires most private health insurance plans and  Medicaid ACA expansion programs to cover many recommended preventive services without any patient cost-sharing, including pregnancy-related services and supports such as: prenatal visits, folic acid, anxiety and depression screenings, screenings and medication for preeclampsia, STI tests, smoking cessation support, and breastfeeding and lactation counseling and supplies.”  

Kristen Welker, NBC News: “Sir, you said during the campaign, you have ‘concepts of a plan.’ Do you have an actual plan at this point for health care?”

Trump: “Yes. We have concepts of a plan that would be better.”

The Hill: “On the campaign trail, Trump has doubled down on his promise to repeal the ACA, a feat he fell one vote short of in 2017.”

Associated Press: “Trump says he will renew efforts to replace ‘Obamacare’ if he wins a second term”

New York Magazine: “Vance: Trump’s Health-Care Plan Is to Let Insurers Charge More for Preexisting Conditions”