Dept. of Health and Human Services

Ensure that Teen Pregnancy Prevention (TPP) program grants do not support "high-risk sexual behavior among adolescents".

Note: 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".

Restore the Office of the Deputy Director for the Conscience and Religious Freedom Division.

Note: HHS reorganized its office for civil rights to focus on conscience and religious freedom.

Rescind policy of Office of Refugee Resettlement to provide abortion access for pregnant unaccompanied immigrant youth.

Note: Accomplished by sending pregnant minors to Texas detention facilities due to the state's restrictive abortion laws.

Withdraw Biden-era guidance that strengthened HIPAA protections for reproductive healthcare.

Note: Completed by Judge Kacsmaryk, who vacated the rule.

Rescind guidance that requires hospitals to perform an abortion to save a woman's life under EMTALA.

Note: The administration rescinded guidance requiring hospitals to provide abortions to women in medical emergencies.

Reverse prohibitions on healthcare discrimination based on gender identity.

Note: Trump rescinded guidance extending the nondiscrimination protections under Section 1557 to discrimination based on gender identity.

Reverse prohibitions on healthcare discrimination based on pregnancy (to cover abortion).

Note: Trump revoked Biden's executive order that banned discrimination based on "pregnancy or related conditions".

Enforce the Hyde amendment (banning any federal funds from being used for abortions, abortion counseling, etc.).

Eliminate the HHS Reproductive Healthcare Access Task Force and install a pro-life task force.

Note: Trump dismantled the Reproductive Healthcare Access task force.

Revoke guidance that prohibited adoption/foster agencies from discriminating based on sexual orientation and gender identity.

Note: Trump established the White House Faith Office to, in part, "promote foster care and adoption programs in partnership with faith-based entities".

In Progress

End taxpayer funding of Planned Parenthood.

Note: The administration is withholding tens of millions of dollars from Planned Parenthood clinics; reconciliation bill prohibits Medicaid payments to abortion providers for one year.

Eliminate the Head Start program.

Note: The administration is eliminating hundreds of federal regulations governing Head Start.

Prioritize traditional (heterosexual) marriage in its messaging, health, and welfare policies.

Note: 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.

In Progress

Restore Trump-era religious and moral exemptions to ACA's contraception requirement.

Note: 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.

Create and promote a research agenda that supports pro-life policies and "explores the harms" of abortion.

Increase breadth of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families work requirements.

Rescind Medicare coverage for gender reassignment surgery.

Fund in-home childcare instead of universal day care.

Withdraw HHS funding, including 10% of Medicaid funds, from states that require private health insurance plans to cover abortion.

Prohibit family planning grants from going to entities that perform abortions or provide funding to other entities that perform abortions.

Pass the Born Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act.

Withdraw Biden-era guidance that retail pharmacies must dispense abortion medication and contraception.

Eliminate ACA's requirement to cover the morning after pill.