Among its first acts in office, the Trump-Vance administration closed a federal government website opened by the Biden administration to promote abortion-on-demand at taxpayers’ expense. Users noted the website ReproductiveRights.gov had gone offline on Monday afternoon, shortly after Chief Justice John Roberts swore in Donald Trump as the 47th president of the United States.
“Reproductive health care, including access to birth control and safe and legal abortion care, is an essential part of your health and well-being,” the moribund website claimed. It also erroneously insisted the abortion pill, mifepristone, “is safe and effective when used as directed,” although mifepristone produced 35 emergency room visits for every 100 abortions in 2015.
The Biden-Harris administration announced the website’s debut on Aug. 3, 2022, in response to the Supreme…