Anti-abortion activists have increasingly publicly criticized President Donald Trump for departing from anti-abortion priorities during the first year of his second term, particularly on limiting the availability of the abortion pill mifepristone and cutting federal funding for abortions through Obamacare.
The Trump administration announced several new initiatives that are lower-level priorities for anti-abortion voters, including an expansion of the Mexico City Policy that prohibits federal funding for abortion advocacy overseas and ending federal funding for research that uses aborted fetal tissue.
The Small Business Administration also launched a review of whether Planned Parenthood affiliates illegally received $88 million in COVID-era loans for both abortion and diversity, equity, and inclusion projects.
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But anti-abortion advocates have had a tenuous relationship with the Trump administration since he led
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