Trump signals his support to anti-abortion movement but offers few policy plans

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

72% : "I am proud to be the first president ever to have joined you in person," Trump said in a video recorded in the Oval Office, referring to his 2020 appearance, to the cheers of an estimated tens of thousands of activists and students gathered on the National Mall.
65% : "What we've seen is that over the years, and in particular after the Dobbs decision, there has been a stark increase in violence and disruption from anti-abortion activists and advocates," Fonteno said.
60% : "We've seen an increase in burglaries and arson and threats to abortion providers, and we anticipate that that will only increase with this new administration, as anti-abortion extremists are empowered and emboldened to try to create a culture of fear around abortion care.
55% : Already, Trump has received praise from anti-abortion leaders.
54% : Trump insisted, as he did throughout his campaign, that the abortion issue has returned "to the state legislatures and to the people, where it belongs.
51% : We will work to offer a loving hand to new mothers and young families, and we will support adoption and foster care," Trump said, but did not offer specific plans.
50% : Anti-abortion activists have claimed the Biden administration disproportionately prosecuted those who oppose abortion.
48% : In its first week, his administration scrubbed information from its national health site about reproductive rights and abortion access and withdrew the U.S. from the World Health Organization, which anti-abortion news outlet LifeNews referred to on X to as the "Pro-Abortion World Health Organization.
47% : The Biden administration cracked down on a resurgence of these tactics of physically blocking reproductive health clinics and then resisting arrest and prosecuted dozens under the federal law, including attacks on anti-abortion pregnancy centers, which the law also protects.
46% : "Aside from the anti-abortion pardons, none of Trump's many executive orders issued during his first week in office concerned abortion.
45% : And after months of Trump distancing himself from the abortion issue and a week of lobbying by anti-abortion leaders, the president and Vice President J.D. Vance spoke at the movement's annual March for Life rally on Friday.
45% : "The U.S. Department of Justice said Friday it would scale back on prosecuting abortion-clinic protest cases under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, according to the Washington Post.
40% : He told States Newsroom he didn't vote for Trump, but for the American Solidarity Party, a minor political party based on Catholic teachings.
39% : But unlike his major policy pronouncements in other areas, Trump has not signaled any major federal actions to limit abortion.
39% : The Chicago-based nonprofit legal group the Thomas More Society filed petitions on behalf of 21 of the 23 pardoned individuals, arguing Biden's Justice Department weaponized the law, which is also how Trump has justified his more than 1,500 day-one pardons and commutations of individuals who invaded the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, some of whom violently attacked police officers.
38% : But some leaders were reassured by a different executive order Trump signed, related to another Christian-right issue: gender.
36% : In fact, he has repeatedly said he would veto a federal abortion ban, would not prohibit the mailing of medication abortion via the Comstock Act of 1873 and says he supports in vitro fertilization, something many in the anti-abortion movement oppose.
34% : That's what the movement is trying to do, and Trump is like, no.
32% : Thus many in the anti-abortion movement are far from confident that Trump will make abortion more difficult to access, let alone get closer to their larger goal of enshrining fetal personhood rights in the U.S. Constitution.
28% : Harrington later told States Newsroom he plans to speak out if Trump does not deliver on some of the movement's major asks, such as eliminating family-planning federal funding to reproductive health organizations and reinstating regulations to abortion drugs.
27% : President Donald Trump delivered his Day One promise to the anti-abortion movement four days into his second term: He pardoned nearly two dozen anti-abortion activists convicted of federal offenses that included using physical force to block access to and invade abortion clinics, as well as for threats to clinic staff and patients.
27% : Again hats, while others expressed reservation about Trump, following his shifted abortion language during his presidential campaign.
26% : Vice President J.D. Vance, who spoke on stage after Trump, to raucous applause, referred to the anti-abortion movement as "our movement" and emphasized the need for government to make it easier for people to afford kids.
26% : Other leaders have praised some of Trump's appointees for their anti-abortion positions such as Attorney General appointee Pam Bondi and Secretary of State appointee Marco Rubio.
24% : "When Trump went kind of more pro-choice, really, for a lot of us, we felt abandoned," said Bryan Gebhart, a parent helping to chaperone about 45 students bussed from St. Francis DeSales High School in Columbus, Ohio.
23% : Trump continues to take credit for overturning Roe v. Wade, despite the decision's unpopularity, but campaigned as a moderate on abortion, which he says is a state issue.
22% : "Terrisa Bukovinac's Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising group is affiliated with several of the activists who were serving prison sentences for blockading abortion clinics until the Trump pardons.
22% : "Trump has been clear, and I believe him when he says that he has no intention of setting any kind of federal abortion restrictions.
16% : Bukovinac told States Newsroom that while she is grateful for Trump's action, she no longer considers Trump and Vance to be "pro-life.""Trump has come out in favor of the abortion pill, and so has Vance," Bukovinac told States Newsroom.

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