{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.hydesmith.senate.gov/trump-administration", "TRUMP ADMINISTRATION", "2021-11-18", "2021", "2021-11", "Republican", "Senate", "MS", "Cindy Hyde-Smith", "H001079", "www.hydesmith.senate.gov", "hydesmith", "https://www.hydesmith.senate.gov/newsroom", "scraper", "TRUMP ADMINISTRATION\n\nCongressional Record Vol. 167, No. 201\n\n(Senate - November 18, 2021) PDF\n\nMrs. HYDE-SMITH. Madam President, the U.S. Supreme Court is set to\n\nhear the most anticipated abortion case in nearly 30 years when it\n\nconsiders Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization in oral argument\n\non December 1, 2021. This development allows us to consider the many\n\npeople whose dedication to the pro-life cause has led us to this point.\n\nOne of those people is former President Donald J. Trump. The pro-life\n\nmovement would not be where it is today absent his advocacy for pro-\n\nlife policies and for conservative judges.\n\nIn January 2016, Presidential candidate Trump said, \"America, when\n\nit is at its best, follows a set of rules that have worked since our\n\nFounding. One of those rules is that we, as Americans, revere life and\n\nhave done so since our Founders made it the first, and most important,\n\nof our 'unalienable' rights.\"\n\nHe continued, \"Over time, our culture of life in this country has\n\nstarted sliding toward a culture of death. Perhaps the most significant\n\npiece of evidence to support this assertion is that since Roe v. Wade\n\nwas decided by the Supreme Count 43 years ago, over 50 million\n\nAmericans never had the chance to enjoy the opportunities offered by\n\nthis country. They never had the chance to become doctors, musicians,\n\nfarmers, teachers, husbands, fathers, sons or daughters. They never had\n\nthe chance to enrich the culture of this nation or to bring their\n\nskills, lives, loves or passions into the fabric of this country. They\n\nare missing, and they are missed.\"\n\nThese words helped guide President Trump's actions in office as he\n\nadvocated for pro-life policies both domestically and abroad.\n\nDomestically, President Trump fought to defund Planned Parenthood and\n\nother abortion providers from receiving Federal funding. He prohibited\n\nsuch entities from receiving title X funding and permitted States to\n\nprohibit them from participating in Medicaid as well. In 2018,\n\nPresident Trump issued a rule requiring health insurers to specify\n\nwhether plans cover abortion. He also issued rules to protect religious\n\nobjectors and moral objectors from the Department of Health and Human\n\nServices contraceptive mandate. In addition, the President established\n\na new Conscience and Religious Freedom division of the Office for Civil\n\nRights to protect healthcare providers who object to participating in\n\nabortions.\n\nPresident Trump's commitment to the unborn was just as strong abroad.\n\nJust days after his inauguration, President Trump ended Federal funding\n\nof abortion overseas by reinstating the Mexico City Policy, which\n\nprohibits nongovernment organizations receiving U.S. aid grants from\n\nperforming and promoting abortions overseas. He directed the Secretary\n\nof State to implement the ban on taxpayer funds for overseas abortions\n\nacross most U.S. global health programs through his Protecting Life in\n\nGlobal Health Assistance policy.\n\nIn addition, President Trump also defunded the United Nations\n\nPopulation Fund, a program long tied to China's forced abortion one-\n\nchild policy. To further underline this, the Trump administration in\n\n2020 declared to the United Nations that abortion is not a human right\n\nand signed the Geneva Consensus Declaration, where 33 nations joined\n\ntogether to reaffirm the value of unborn life. Finally, in January\n\n2021, the Trump administration and called for the Chinese Communist\n\nParty to immediately end its system of forced abortions.\n\nIn addition to his work within the executive branch, President Trump\n\nalso showed his commitment to the pro-life cause by nominating\n\nconstitutional conservative and originalist judges to the Federal\n\njudiciary. He nominated three originalist Justices to the U.S. Supreme\n\nCourt: Justice Neil Gorsuch in 2017, Justice Brett Kavanaugh in 2018,\n\nand Justice Amy Coney Barrett in 2020. More broadly, President Trump\n\nnominated 234 new article III judges who share this commitment to\n\nupholding our Constitution as written.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T20:30:49Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.hydesmith.senate.gov/trump-administration"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.754412030801177, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}