EMILYs List Statement on Donald Trump’s Day One Attacks

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Yesterday, within hours of his return to the White House, Donald Trump carried out a flurry of actions undermining Americans’ fundamental rights, including access to information about reproductive health care. This included quickly removing a government website launched in 2022 by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to help Americans access abortion, birth control, and other reproductive health care. EMILYs List President Jessica Mackler released the following statement:
 
“Donald Trump has made clear his agenda to roll back Americans’ fundamental freedoms. On top of dozens of actions undoing critical progress, it took less than one day for his administration to revoke access to basic reproductive health care information for the public. This is just the beginning of his dark plans to further undermine our rights in a second term. Democratic women will be at the heart of fighting back, and we will be with them every step of the way.”
 
EMILYs List, the nation’s largest resource for women in politics, works to elect Democratic pro-choice women up and down the ballot and across the country with a goal of fighting for our rights and our communities. Over nearly 40 years, EMILYs List has raised nearly $950 million to help Democratic women win competitive elections by recruiting and training candidates, supporting and helping build strong campaigns, researching the issues that impact women and families, running one of the most impactful independent expenditure operations for Democrats, and turning out women voters to the polls. Since our founding in 1985, we have helped elect the country’s first woman as vice president, 192 women to the House, 29 to the Senate, 20 governors, and over 1,600 women to state and local office. More than 40% of the candidates EMILYs List has helped elect to Congress have been women of color. Visit www.emilyslist.org for more information.