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As part of the purge of information by the incoming Trump administration, it would prefer that people do not have access, the website reproductiverights.gov has been offline, as before. spotted by CBS News.
The site was launched by the Biden administration in 2022 after the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn it Roe v. WadeUpending federal protection that grants people the right to access abortion. The site, which was operated by the Department of Health and Human Services, offered information about abortion rights, informing people about what type of care is available to them and how to advocate for access to that care. . It also offers information on a number of other sexual and reproductive health services including breast and cervical cancer screenings, antenatal care and HIV screening. While an archived version of the site is accessible through the Internet Archive, the information is no longer hosted on the dedicated federal domain.
With the overthrow of Roelaws regarding abortion care are left up to the states—meaning that access varies wildly depending on where a person lives. For the Guttmacher Institute41 states have some restrictions on access to abortion, including 12 that have a total ban on the health service. Access may vary depending on how far in the gestational process a person is, and exceptions may or may not be available.
This is exactly the type of situation in which you want a regularly updated database that provides easy-to-navigate and understandable care options maintained by experts. So of course it’s gone now.
This should not come as a surprise. During his first term, Trump led a similar purge of science-based information hosted on government websites, primarily targeting climate change information. During his first day in office in 2017, he removed all mention of climate change from whitehouse.gov, deleted pages related to climate change from the websites of the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of the Interior, and the Department of Energy, and basically tried to bury any suggestion that climate change was happening or would affect people . Luckily, if you ignore it, that’s okay go away…right?
However, the reality is that reproductiverights.gov and other federal sites going down is a bit of virtue signaling from the Trump administration. It is not the website that dictates the reality of reproductive rights, and there are many third parties like it Planned Parenthood, the Center for Reproductive Rightsand the Guttmacher Institute which provides actionable information for those seeking abortion care. Hell, you can even find information about abortion rights on government websites thanks to people like Congressman Dan Goldman of New Yorkwhich maintains a list of resources for its components.
But the decision to take down the site on day one shows where this administration’s priorities lie. The Spanish-language pages for the White House it happened to go down yesterdayalso, as done pages refer to LGBTQ rights. If you want to know who is in the crosshairs, just look at who has access to information cut off.
