The president reinstated a policy blocking U.S. aid to foreign organizations that use funds for abortion. He also overturned two Biden executive orders, contending they violated the law barring federal funding for abortion.

The move, announced in a presidential memorandum Friday, revives a policy known as the “global gag rule” that Trump and many other Republican presidents have implemented. Already, contractors that receive U.S. foreign aid money cannot use it to directly support abortion services. But they can tell people the option is available.

In the early days of his second term in office, Donald Trump has been cagey about where his administration will take abortion policy.

One recipient of a pardon, Lauren Handy, led the blockade of an abortion clinic in D.C. When police arrested her in 2022, authorities removed five fetuses from the home where she was staying. This was not normal or sane or reasonable, yet it was done to make a statement about Trump as an opponent of abortion.

Here are some of the actions Trump’s nominees could take on abortion, if confirmed, from HHS to the Justice Department.

Thousands of anti-abortion activists are coming to Washington for the annual March for Life, seeking to build momentum and maintain pressure on legislators.

Trump pardoned nearly two dozen anti-abortion protesters who were charged with FACE Act violations, marking the latest in a series of clemency actions

The orders came hours after Trump addressed the anti-abortion March for Life via video and largely reemphasize GOP abortion policies.

President Donald Trump signed an executive action reinstating the so-called Mexico City Policy, delivering an early and expected victory to opponents of abortion rights who helped fuel his return to power.

The U.S. Justice Department's new leadership under President Donald Trump ordered cutbacks on Friday on federal prosecutions of people accused of blocking access to reproductive health centers and abortion clinics,

Trump expands Reagan-era abortion policy, cutting billions in global health aid to groups that provide abortion services.