The start of President Donald Trump’s second administration has offered subtle but promising hope to pro-lifers in its quiet reset of White House messaging.
Numerous executive orders that Trump has already signed or proposed have made for a flashy first week. Between gender ideology, a “Gulf of Mexico” rename, DEI rollbacks, and repeated “America First” petitions, it is clear that a language element guides Trump’s approach as much as tangible policy mandates. His memorandum on architectural beauty also contributes to the cultural content the president is targeting.
Likewise, the administration has shut down a government abortion resource website called “reproductiverights.org.” Perhaps because it is not among the series of orders on Trump’s desk, news of the now-inaccessible site has been relatively quiet. As a “public awareness campaign” of the Department of Health and Human Services, the site likely fell under the administration’s rule directing the HHS to pause external communications. Like many of the executive orders alongside it, the shutdown helps refine the White House’s approach to culture-sensitive issues by tightening the rhetoric surrounding abortion.
To some, the language game is a dishonest but effective way to change how the country thinks, but it is not so sinister as Trump “writing his own new reality” — he is setting the tone. Several of the changes are overdue, “commonsense” decisions, and a few are vital to the affirmation of reality. That goes for the administration’s definition of male and female as the only two sexes, and it does as well for the HHS abortion website closure.
Neutrality feels wrong to a land long dictated by Biden-era bias. Still, the updates are welcome. The “reproductive rights” site backlash could be played the same way that Planned Parenthood is played — as an “indispensable, key resource” for women’s health — but that would not change the fact that the federal government should not be promoting or funding abortion.
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Contrary to the precedent that former President Joe Biden set, the Trump administration is not employing the coy “know your rights” abortion defense strategy. It is standing by the law and by truth, at this point as easy as taking an impartial stance.
And despite widespread misconception, the legal inability of a woman to kill her child is not a negative comment on her dignity. That false notion needs to be rejected, and such soft steps as shutting down governmental abortion promotion are a welcome corrective.
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