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On Mother’s Day, the White House announced the creation of Moms.gov, an innovative website connecting new and expectant mothers with pregnancy resource centers and other helpful information.

The webpage’s adoption section links to Focus on the Family’s resource “Considering Adoption.”

However, the website also directs women to drugs and medications related to in vitro fertilization (IVF), which (as usually practiced) disrespects and denies the right to life of preborn children.

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) launched the website, calling it a “first-of-its-kind resource” offering “guidance and information to support the health and well-being of mothers and their families.”

“This Mother’s Day, the Trump Administration is strengthening its commitment to America’s families by equipping mothers and fathers with the resources and information they need to build healthy, prosperous lives,” said HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

“Moms.gov delivers critical tools and support to help parents foster healthy pregnancies, strengthen young families, and create brighter futures for their children. This is how you Make America Healthy Again.”

According to HHS, the new platform features information on:

• Support Services and Health Centers (Pregnancy Centers and FQHCs).
• Nutrition quick facts for mothers based on the Dietary Guideline for Americans.
• Trump Accounts.
• Trump Rx.
• Resources for women and parents.
• Preconception health.
• Breastfeeding.
• Mental health.
• Adoption.

The White House announced the creation of the website on social media, calling it a “one-stop home for all the resources needed for expectant mothers including nutrition, pregnancy support, lifesaving care and more.”

Pro-life advocate Lila Rose shared the announcement, saying the website connects women with “life-affirming support.”

“Abortion tells a woman she must kill her child to succeed. THAT IS A LIE,” Rose added. “Mothers deserve hope, help, and real care. Every child deserves the chance to live.”

Speaking from the Oval Office at an event on maternal health care, President Trump touted the website as a part of his “ambitious agenda to support American mothers.”

Secretary Kennedy, speaking at the event, said, “I just want to stress what a huge win for the MAHA movement, and for the pro-life movement Moms.gov is. It is one-stop shopping for IVF, for prenatal care, for postnatal care, for nutrition, for baby formula.”

Individuals can purchase drugs commonly used in IVF, including Gonal-F – an injectable medication containing follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) – through Trump Rx, which is accessible through Moms.gov.

It is good news the Trump administration is directing women to pregnancy resource centers, which provide life-affirming care to moms and dads. There are 2,750 centers nationwide that provide nearly $368 million annually in free support to clients, including $206 million in free medical services, $83 million in education and support services and $78 million in material goods.

However, Secretary Kennedy is incorrect to call IVF “pro-life.” As it is usually practiced, IVF is not pro-life.

Only around 2.3% of babies created through IVF will be born alive; the vast majority are genetically screened, sex-selected and graded out of existence.

In fact, more preborn babies die due to IVF each year than abortion.

The Trump administration certainly deserves praise for supporting the life-affirming work of pregnancy resource centers.

At the same time, pro-life supporters must reaffirm that all human embryos are made in God’s image and worthy of life and legal protection from the moment of conception. Helping more woman access IVF is certainly not a “win” for the pro-life movement.

If you are experiencing an unexpected pregnancy and want to learn more about your options, you can visit My Choice Network.

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This Fourth of July will be a huge celebration of America’s 250th birthday. It will also be the day our nation’s largest abortion giant, Planned Parenthood, receives a multi-million-dollar gift – unless Congress intervenes.

Last year, Congress defunded Planned Parenthood – which killed 434,350 preborn children in one year according to its latest annual report – of around $850 million in federal taxpayer money. Since then, around 50 Planned Parenthood clinics have closed, in part because of financial troubles.

The defund provision (Section 71113) was included in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which President Trump signed into law on July 4, 2025. The bill also cut taxes on working families, provided additional funding for border security and immigration enforcement, and beefed-up spending on national security.

While the Hyde amendment prohibits taxpayer dollars from directly going to pay for abortions, Planned Parenthood could receive federal monies, including government grants, contracts and Medicaid reimbursements, for other services.

All money is fungible, so these federal dollars indirectly supported the organization’s grisly abortion business by allowing it to pay salaries, sustain operating expenses and open new locations. That’s how Planned Parenthood grew into a $2.1 billion enterprise.

Originally, it wasn’t clear whether the defund provision would even go into effect after Planned Parenthood, and a coalition of 23 states, filed separate lawsuits arguing Section 71113 violated the U.S. Constitution.

Federal Judge Indira Talwani initially sided with the abortion giant, ruling Section 71113 violated the equal protection clause and was an unconstitutional bill of attainder, just three days after the president signed the bill.

However, Judge Talwani’s decision was quickly overturned by the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which was notable, since the 1st Circuit is widely seen as one the most liberal appellate courts in the country. The 1st Circuit unanimously upheld Section 71113.

The defund provision lasts only one year, however, meaning it will expire in less than two months unless Congress acts to extend the provision.

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act was enacted through the reconciliation process, which Congress can generally use once per year to enact tax- and spending-related priorities. The reconciliation process allows legislation to pass the U.S. Senate by simple majority vote, rather than the usually required 60-vote threshold.

The current Congress, however, can use the reconciliation process twice more before the end of this year. Pro-life advocates have been urging Congress to use the opportunity to defund Planned Parenthood again.

Congress recently advanced a “skinny” reconciliation bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security to end the agency’s shutdown. That leaves one reconciliation bill left which could be used to extend the defund provision.

According to House Pro-Life Caucus Co-Chair Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., Speaker of the House Mike Johnson is “doing everything he can to make sure that happens.”

Speaker Johnson told the Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America Gala on April 29, “We’ve been very creative in how we’ve used [the reconciliation process], and we’re intending to do that again.”

Rep. Smith said Planned Parenthood again receiving taxpayer dollars would sour the celebration of America’s 250th birthday on July 4.

“It would mar the event,” Smith told the Daily Signal.

Nearly 250 years ago, America’s Founding Fathers signed the Declaration of Independence, proclaiming the self-evident truth that all men have unalienable rights to “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

Our elected representatives in Congress must ensure our nation lives up to its founding principles by barring taxpayer dollars from going to a massive enterprise that kills thousands of innocent Americans annually, depriving them of their right to life.

At Focus on the Family, we have been working to turn the cultural tide and save mothers and babies from abortion for years. Since beginning the Option Ultrasound Program in 2004, Focus has helped save over half a million lives. Just $60 will help save a life through Option Ultrasound. Will you partner with us to save lives from abortion?

If you are experiencing an unexpected pregnancy and want to learn more about your options, you can visit My Choice Network.

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The U.S. Supreme Court temporarily restored access to mail-order abortion pills Monday morning, allowing women to continue obtaining mifepristone through telehealth appointments, the mail and pharmacies.

The Court administratively stayed a lower court decision overturning the Biden administration’s efforts to make the abortion drug more widely available following the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision overturning Roe v. Wade.

In 2023, the Biden administration modified mifepristone’s Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies (REMS), a regulation placed on the drug by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to lessen the risks to women who take it. An estimated 11% of women who abort their child with mifepristone suffer life-threatening complications.

The FDA removed the in-person dispensing requirement, making mifepristone accessible through telehealth appointments, obtainable by mail nationwide, and available at retail pharmacies. The requirement had been in place for over two decades.

In 2025, Louisiana brought a lawsuit challenging the 2023 REMS, arguing the FDA’s justifications for removing the in-person dispensing requirement were based on flawed or nonexistent data.

Additionally, Louisiana documented how the new regulation resulted in numerous illegal abortions in the state. In effect, the 2023 REMS allow women to bypass a pro-life state’s restriction on abortion by ordering mifepristone online, and having it delivered through the mail.

Louisiana argued the 2023 REMS also made the abortion pill ripe for abuse. Look no further than the case of Rosalie Markezich, a Louisiana woman who was forced by her then boyfriend to take abortion drugs he ordered online from a doctor in California. Markezich joined Louisiana’s lawsuit against the FDA.

On May 1, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit sided with Louisiana and stayed the 2023 REMS.

Judge Stuart Kyle Duncan, joined by Judges Leslie Southwick and Kurt Engelhardt, noted that the FDA “conceded it had failed to adequately study whether remotely prescribing mifepristone is safe.”

Louisiana made “a strong showing that the 2023 REMS was not ‘reasonable’ or ‘reasonably explained,’” the court said.

The Fifth Circuit added,

Now, the U.S. Supreme Court has put the Fifth Circuit’s decision on hold – for now. The seven-day administrative stay gives the Supreme Court more time to consider the case.

Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), which joined Louisiana in challenging the FDA’s regulation, issued a statement following the Court’s decision.

“This is NOT a reversal of Friday’s decision. Rather, it’s the run-of-the-mill pause that the Justices typically use to consider the issues raised in an emergency application,” ADF said.

“We respect the Court’s desire to have time to consider the issues and will continue our fight to uphold this victory that protects women and babies across the country from FDA’s unlawful and destructive mail-order abortion-drug scheme.”

The Supreme Court’s administrative stay expires on Monday, May 11. We’ll likely know more about where this case is headed by then. The Daily Citizen will keep you updated.

The case is Danco Laboratories v. Louisiana.

At Focus on the Family, we have been working to turn the cultural tide and save mothers and babies from abortion for years. Since beginning the Option Ultrasound Program in 2004, Focus has helped save over half a million lives. Just $60 will help save a life through Option Ultrasound. Will you partner with us to save lives from abortion?

If you are experiencing an unexpected pregnancy and want to learn more about your options, you can visit My Choice Network.

Related articles and resources:

My Choice Network

I’m Pregnant, Now What?

Dealing With Unplanned Pregnancy

Become an Option Ultrasound Life Advocate

New Insights on the Dangers of the Abortion Pill

Overcoming Abortion and Becoming a Force for Life

Biden Administration Endangered Women With Abortion Pill Change, Research Finds

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