section_path: Domestic policy/Abortion
section_name: Abortion
paragraph_text: Abortion
  
  Before being elected, Trump had declared that abortion should be delegated to states in April 2024. Trump criticized the Arizona Supreme Court 's ruling in Planned Parenthood Arizona v. Mayes (2024), in which the court upheld an 1864 law criminalizing abortions except to save the life of the mother, stating that he would not sign a federal abortion ban.
  
  After the Alabama Supreme Court ruled in LePage v. Center for Reproductive Medicine (2024) that frozen embryos are living beings, Trump positioned himself in favor of in vitro fertilisation (IVF).
  
  On January 24, 2025, Trump reinstated the Mexico City policy (“global gag rule”), which had been rescinded by the Biden administration. Since the Reagan administration in the 1980s, this rule has been put in place during Republican administrations and rescinded during Democratic administrations.
  
  In May 2025, the Trump administration asked that Missouri v. FDA, a lawsuit filed by Missouri, Idaho and Kansas in the Northern District of Texas before Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, be dismissed arguing the states did not have standing. The suit sought to restrict access to Mifepristone including by prohibiting telehealth prescriptions.
  
  In June 2025, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services rescinded guidance requiring that hospitals provide emergency abortions under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act.