Headline Roundup • January 21st, 2025
Government Website On Reproductive Rights Is Gone
Summary from the AllSides News Team
On Monday, reproductiverights.gov went offline and remains inaccessible.
The Details: CBS News (Lean Left bias) first reported the website being down on Monday night, hours after Donald Trump took office. It was active as recently as Jan. 15. Neither Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) or the Trump-Vance transition team has addressed the outage.
The Context:The Biden administration launched reproductiverights.gov in 2022 after Roe. v Wade was overturned. The site featured information about abortion rights, access to breast and cervical cancer screenings, and other sexual, prenatal, and preventive healthcare. Trump’s stance during his campaign was for abortion laws to be left to individual states.
How The Media Covered It: The Verge (Lean Left) reported that “scientists, researchers, and health and environmental advocates” have concerns about changes the Trump administration may make to government websites in their fields, although they point out that pages pertaining to climate change remain active as of publication. Townhall (Right) criticized the former HHS Secretary as being a “pro-abortion bully,” calling the Biden administration “particularly pro-abortion.” Townhall also reported that “another woke far-left website,” a page for the Special Representative for Racial Equity and Justice, went offline.
Featured Coverage of this Story
A screenshot of reproductiverights.gov from the Internet Archive.
A federal website for information on reproductive rights and healthcare access is suddenly down, following Donald Trump’s inauguration yesterday. Reproductiverights.gov seemed to be offline as of last night, CBS reports.
The Biden administration launched the website in 2022 in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. On top of information about abortion rights, the website also included resources on accessing preventative care, including breast and cervical cancer screenings, prenatal care, and HIV screening. (The Internet Archive has a snapshot of what the website looked like as recently as January 15th.)
AP Photo/Patrick Semansky
The Trump White House wasted no time making changes. On Monday, not long after President Donald Trump took office for his second term, people noticed there were some changes to certain White House websites, including those representing far-left priorities of the Biden administration. Chief among them is that reproductiverights.gov is gone.
The website went up for the Department Health & Human Services (HHS) in 2022, the same year that the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade with the Dobbs v. Jackson decision. The decision was officially handed down in late June, but someone...
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A government website that provided information on reproductive rights appears to have gone offline around the same time Donald Trump returned to office. Newsweek has contacted the Trump-Vance transition team and the Department of Health and Human Services for comment via email. In 2022, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the 1973 ruling that protected women's right to choose to have an abortion. The court's three Trump-appointed justices ruled with the majority in overturning the ruling. Trump, who takes credit for the overturning of Roe v. Wade, has long...
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