Dept. of Health and Human Services
www.hhs.govAgency Progress
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23
Total
8
Completed
5
In Progress
10
Not Started
Objectives
HHS canceled canceled 53 of the TPP program’s 67 grants, saying "grant recipients must teach abstinence as the only means to prevent teen pregnancy".
HHS reorganized its office for civil rights to focus on conscience and religious freedom.
Accomplished by sending pregnant minors to Texas detention facilities due to the state's restrictive abortion laws.
Completed by Judge Kacsmaryk, who vacated the rule.
The administration rescinded guidance requiring hospitals to provide abortions to women in medical emergencies.
Trump rescinded guidance extending the nondiscrimination protections under Section 1557 to discrimination based on gender identity.
Trump revoked Biden's executive order that banned discrimination based on "pregnancy or related conditions".
Trump dismantled the Reproductive Healthcare Access task force.
Trump established the White House Faith Office to, in part, "promote foster care and adoption programs in partnership with faith-based entities".
The administration is withholding tens of millions of dollars from Planned Parenthood clinics; reconciliation bill prohibits Medicaid payments to abortion providers for one year.
While not at HHS, we are starting to see the beginnings of this policy in other agencies - the Transportation Dept. directed money to areas with high marriage and birth rates.
Completed by the Biden administration's withdrawal of its own proposed rule prior to Trump taking office; a court later blocked Trump's first admin rule.