Government website reproductiverights.gov appeared to be offline on the evening of President Donald Trump’s inauguration.
The site, introduced in 2022 through the American decomposition of health and health services as a component of a public awareness campaign, contained data on the care of abortion and reproductive physical care and data from known patients of a record.
“The attention of reproductive aptitude, adding access to the birth control and legal attention of abortion, is an essential detail of its physical condition and its well -being,” reads a press release published on the website. “Although Roe V. Wade has been canceled, abortion remains legal in many states and other reproductive physical care facilities remain protected through the law. ” “
The site said that maximum physical conditioning plans are required based on the employer and personal physical ability insurance plans for the contraepulation of safe birth strategies under the health care law at a low price, which Trump has requested A repeal. He also published a list of other canopy insurance plans through maximums, add breast and cervical cancer exams, prenatal care and HIV exams.
The site reiterated that while abortion legality varies by state, Mifepristone, in a regimen with misoprostol — otherwise known as a medication abortion — has been approved by the FDA and is safe and effective when used correctly.
It was not transparent precisely when it fell, but had been active as recently as January 15.
CBS News has reached out to the Trump administration for clarification on why the site was down, but has not heard back.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who was tapped by Trump to oversee the Department of Health and Human Services, has flip-flopped on his public stance regarding abortion. He said on Facebook last year that “abortion should be legal up until a certain number of weeks, and restricted thereafter,” but also wrote that “every abortion is a tragedy,” calling for the reduction of abortions “by better supporting mothers, parents and families.”
In 2023, he told an NBC News journalist that he would prohibit her from national abortion after the first 3 months of pregnancy, but a few hours later, a Kennedy spokesman said that “not the law prohibits abortion,” he said, “he said,” he said He, “said the point of sale.
Trump, meanwhile, has said that abortion decisions should be left to the states and that he would veto a federal abortion ban while also repeatedly taking credit for the Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v. Wade.
According to the Guttmacher Institute, 12 states lately have a general prohibition of abortion and in 4 states, abortion is prohibited after six weeks, when maximum women still know they are pregnant. According to a CBS news survey, maximum Americans continue to favor legal abortion in all or maximum cases.