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Administration claims website is resource for ‘new and expecting mothers’ but group of senators says it raises ‘profound’ health and safety
Anna Betts at The Guardian:
A group of 11 senators have sent a letter to Donald Trump and Robert F Kennedy urging them to remove a federal website and “cease using federal resources to direct people to anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers”. On Mother’s Day this year, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) launched Moms.gov, a resource they claim is for “new and expecting mothers” and “offers guidance and information to support the health and wellbeing of mothers and their families”. The administration said the site “supports expecting parents who are navigating difficult or unexpected pregnancies” and “features information about pregnancy centers, federally qualified health centers, nutritional guidance”.
In their Wednesday letter, senators – including Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Chuck Schumer, Ron Wyden and Tammy Duckworth – criticized the site and noted that it “directs pregnant women to unregulated and often non-medical anti-abortion facilities known as crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs)”, which they said “raises profound concerns about the health, safety and privacy of people who access this government website at a time when women’s health and reproductive rights face increasing attacks”. “Since the US supreme court took away the fundamental right to abortion care in Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization, 21 states have banned or severely restricted access to abortion, decimating access to care for tens of millions of people,” the lawmakers wrote in the letter, which was first reported by HuffPost. “Yet instead of offering concrete resources to protect the health and safety of pregnant women and their families, the Trump Administration is using this website to highlight anti-abortion CPCs.” The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) states: “CPC is a term used to refer to certain facilities that represent themselves as legitimate reproductive healthcare clinics providing care for pregnant people but actually aim to dissuade people from accessing certain types of reproductive health care, including abortion care and even contraceptive options.”
Staff members “at these unregulated and often non medical facilities have no legal obligation to provide pregnant people with accurate information and are not subject to HIPAA or required by law to maintain client confidentiality”, notes ACOG. While there is “no standard definition of a CPC” and “differing perspectives exist regarding their characteristics and total number”, a Government Accountability Office report from earlier this year estimated there were between 2,400 and 2,800 CPC’s operating in the US in 2025. The report also said that the majority of CPC funding comes from private sources, such as individuals and non-governmental organizations, while a few CPCs receive federal funding.
11 Democratic Senators sent a letter to Donald Trump and RFK Jr. urging them to remove the Option Line link from Moms.gov that promotes anti-abortion facilities deceptively named “crisis pregnancy centers.”
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HuffPost: Senators Demand That Trump Admin Stop Directing Pregnant Women To Anti-Abortion Centers
On the website’s landing page, a photo of a heavily pregnant white woman is cropped below the head, so that she is faceless, anonymous, cradling her massive belly underneath the skirt of her yellow dress. She appears to be standing in a field of tall grass, the kind you can get ticks in. The photo is flanked on either side by chubby infant footprints – one pair in pink, another in blue – a clear nod to the anti-abortion movement’s preferred symbol of what they call “precious feet”. A banner at the top declares that the site, “Moms.gov”, which was launched by the White House on Mother’s Day, offers “Resources, Information, and Help for New and Expecting Mothers”, and advertises that it is “addressing the needs of mothers and fathers who face difficult or unexpected pregnancies” – that is, those who would often seek abortions. In fact, the site does little besides link to Option Line, a referral network of Christian anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers run by the anti-abortion group Heartbeat International. The launch of Moms.gov was accompanied by an uncomfortable Oval Office press conference on Monday, in which members of the Trump administration and some of the more aggressively anti-choice Republican members of Congress gathered to tout the new website and cheer on the Trump administration’s pronatalist stance. Dr Mehmet Oz, the wellness influencer and one-time television personality who now holds a position in the Trump health department as the administrator for Medicare and Medicaid, lamented that Americans are, in his creepy personal parlance, “under-babied”. “One in three Americans are under-babied,” Oz asserted. “That means that you either don’t have any children or you have less children than you would normally want to have.” Oz asserted that the fertility rate has fallen below 1.5 (a Johns Hopkins study indicates that it is in fact a bit higher, and that the US population is not shrinking) and predicted a coming wave of “Trump babies”. [...] But the launch of the website, which features no mention of contraception or paid family leave, and only mentions abortion and childhood vaccination in terms of limits and exemptions, also reflects the Trump administration’s attempt to reconcile with an anti-abortion movement that has complained of feeling discarded or taken for granted in the post-Dobbs era. After the June 2022 Dobbs decision overturning Roe, when Republican-controlled states quickly banned abortion and sent waves of healthcare-seeking women fleeing across state lines to Democratic territories, Republicans saw worse-than-expected turnout in the fall midterm elections – a result that many attributed to outrage over the Dobbs decision and the chaos and suffering that it unleashed. [...] Moms.gov, meanwhile, provides little in the way of actual support for pregnant women. It links them, instead, to anti-choice crisis pregnancy centers, Christian organizations that pose as clinics in order to confuse and trap pregnant women who would otherwise seek abortions. Crisis pregnancy centers often provide pregnancy tests and even ultrasounds, but routinely overstate gestational age, misleading women into believing that they are past the legal limit for abortions, and frequently promise aid, like diapers or cribs, that is not forthcoming or turns out to be contingent upon religious education for expectant parents. They are not medical centers, and they are not reliable: they are meant to deceive women, to trick them into giving up control over their bodies and lives, and to condescend to them, treating them as resources to be extracted from rather than persons endowed with dignity and entitled to the truth. In that sense, they’re a decent metaphor for the Trump administration itself.
Moira Donegan at The Guardian on Moms.gov pumping out MAHA and anti-abortion deception (05.15.2026).
Excellent column from Moira Donegan at The Guardian on why the new Moms.gov website is a font for anti-abortion misinformation.
President Donald Trump celebrated Mother's Day by launching a website that promotes anti-abortion pregnancy help.
Anna Vagianos at HuffPost:
The Trump administration celebrated Mother’s Day by launching a new government website that directs pregnant people to anti-abortion pregnancy centers. The Department of Health and Human Services rolled out Moms.gov, which offers “resources, information and help for new and expecting mothers,” first flagged by Autonomy News reporter Garnet Henderson.
The first resource listed is the 2,750 anti-abortion pregnancy centers, also known as crisis pregnancy centers, around the country. In order for a pregnant woman to find one near her, the site links out to Option Line, a call center that refers callers to anti-abortion centers, also known as crisis pregnancy centers. Option Line is operated by Heartbeat International, one of the biggest anti-abortion pregnancy center groups in the country.
Heartbeat International described Option Line in a Monday statement as the organization’s “24/7 contact center connecting women to life-affirming pregnancy help and local support services.” “I encourage every mom to visit this new page where they will find helpful information about addressing clinical care, pregnancy resources, nutrition tips, TrumpRx and Trump accounts,” President Donald Trump said during a Monday morning press conference. “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,” HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said in a Sunday statement.
“Moms.gov delivers critical tools and support to help parents foster healthy pregnancies, strengthen young families, and create brighter futures for their children,” he continued. “This is how you Make America Healthy Again.” Crisis pregnancy centers are unregulated and often nonmedical, faith-based organizations with the main goal of coercing patients into continuing a pregnancy. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists states these types of clinics are “run by people who operate unethically and with the intention to dissuade, deter, or prevent them from seeking certain reproductive health care options” including abortion.
The newly-launched Moms.gov website links to a page directing pregnant people to anti-abortion “crisis pregnancy centers” referral page Option Line.
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Abortion, Every Day (Jessica Valenti): Moms.gov Helps CPCs Collect Data On Pregnant Women
