US government website on reproductive rights goes offline as Trump takes office

A US government website on reproductive rights has gone offline following Donald Trump’s return to the White House.

Trump, who was sworn into office on Monday (20 January), used his inaugural address to state that there are only two genders, male and female, and vowed to end “the government policy of trying to socially engineer race and gender into every aspect of public and private life”.

During his previous administration, between 2017 and 2021, Trump appointed three justices to the US Supreme Court who voted to overturn the landmark pro-abortion ruling in Roe vs Wade, leaving individual states to decide their own laws.

Twelve states now have total abortion bans, and 29 have laws based on gestational times, according to research and policy organisation the Guttmacher Institute.

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