Despite Trump's insistence that states will do what they want with abortion, he's already taking federal action that could threaten access nationwide.

Last Friday, my colleague Julianne McShane and I broke the news of a pair of letters sent by 30 prominent anti-abortion movement leaders to the heads of the Departments of Health and Human Services and Justice, asking them to use the powers of their agencies to attack abortion pills.

The president signed the executive orders hours after addressing the annual anti-abortion March for Life in a prerecorded video that included no mention that the policies were com

Trump pardoned Handy and her nine co-defendants: Jonathan Darnel of Virginia; Jay Smith, John Hinshaw and William Goodman, all of New York; Joan Bell of New Jersey; Paulette Harlow and Jean Marshall, both of Massachusetts; Heather Idoni of Michigan; and Herb Geraghty of Pennsylvania.

The move came after he addressed thousands of abortion opponents in Washington to mark the 52nd anniversary of the Supreme Court’s 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade.

US President Donald Trump has pardoned 23 anti-abortion activists, including some convicted of blockading a reproductive health clinic and intimidating staff and patients. The pardons were part of a round of executive orders signed by Trump on Thursday, one of several in the first week of his presidency.

West Columbia man said he didn't receive a pardon from Trump after the president issued 23 to those who were convicted of blockading reproductive health clinic.

The people convicted of federal crimes for blockading a Mt. Juliet abortion clinic were pardoned last week. President Donald Trump on Thursday issued a slate of pardons to anti-abortion activists who had been convicted in five different federal cases of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act,