{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.warren.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/warren-hirono-schumer-colleagues-blast-trump-rfk-jr-for-steering-pregnant-women-to-misleading-anti-abortion-website", "Warren, Hirono, Schumer, Colleagues Blast Trump, RFK Jr. For Steering Pregnant Women to Misleading Anti-Abortion Website", "2026-06-24", "2026", "2026-06", "Democrat", "Senate", "MA", "Elizabeth Warren", "W000817", "www.warren.senate.gov", "warren", "https://www.warren.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases", "scraper", "Warren, Hirono, Schumer, Colleagues Blast Trump, RFK Jr. For Steering Pregnant Women to Misleading Anti-Abortion Website\n\nThe government website directs women to Option Line, a finder tool for unregulated, often nonmedical anti-abortion facilities that has exposed the sensitive data of pregnant women.\n\n\u201cMoms.gov is not about promoting women\u2019s health\u2014it is an attempt to use HHS resources to further strip women of their rights and privacy.\u201d\n\nText of Letter (PDF)\n\nWashington, D.C. \u2014 U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), along with Senator Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), pressed President Donald Trump and Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on the Trump Administration\u2019s new website, Moms.gov, which directs pregnant women and their loved ones to unregulated and often nonmedical anti-abortion facilities known as crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs).\n\n\u201cThis raises profound concerns about the health, safety, and privacy of people who access this government website at a time when women\u2019s health and reproductive rights face increasing attacks,\u201d wrote the senators.\n\nOn Mother\u2019s Day, the Trump Administration launched Moms.gov as \u201ca groundbreaking website for new and expecting mothers,\u201d purporting to \u201coffer[] guidance and information to support the health and well-being of mothers and their families.\u201d Rather than connect people with licensed health care providers and evidence-based resources, a button reading \u201cFind Pregnancy Centers Near You\u201d steers them to an external site called Option Line, a CPC finder tool that collects data on pregnant women.\n\nCPCs receive at least tens of millions of dollars in federal funding and, though advertised as legitimate care providers, do not provide comprehensive reproductive care and are not bound by federal privacy protections, including the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), which protects \u201csensitive health information from disclosure without patient's consent.\u201d\n\nCPCs have been known to cause dangerous delays in medically necessary care, putting women\u2019s health and lives at risk. In recent cases, CPCs in Massachusetts and Texas allegedly failed to identify life-threatening ectopic pregnancies, leading to emergency surgeries. These incidents are especially troubling in light of reports that a major CPC support organization advised affiliated centers to avoid providing ultrasounds that could reveal ectopic pregnancies or miscarriages, raising serious concerns about patient safety.\n\nThe website also includes a direct link to Option Line, a collection tool operated by Heartbeat International, an anti-abortion organization with a history of data breaches. Option Line collects sensitive personal information and may share it with third parties, posing serious privacy risks. In one breach, Heartbeat International compromised the privacy of thirteen people by reportedly uploading an unencrypted training video to the internet revealing their names and medical histories.\n\n\u201cAt a time when reproductive health data is being used to criminalize women, the Administration\u2019s use of federal funds to direct women to a private data-collection system, operated by an anti-abortion organization known to collect and share personal data unrestrained by federal privacy guardrails, is cause for alarm and warrants significant scrutiny,\u201d wrote the senators.\n\n\u201cIn this hostile environment, women deserve a government that will work tirelessly to ensure that they have access to health care that improves their lives, receive accurate medical information from legitimate health care providers, and that their private health information will be protected. Instead, the Trump administration continues to advance policies that restrict reproductive freedom and block access to care,\u201d concluded the senators.\n\nThe letter, sent on the anniversary of the Supreme Court decision that overturned Roe v. Wade, demands that HHS remove the crisis pregnancy center link from Moms.gov, stop using federal resources to direct women to anti-abortion CPCs, and provide answers to a set of questions regarding how it will protect the health and data privacy of the women who enter this site.\n\nThis letter was also signed by Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Ed Markey (D-Mass.), Tina Smith (D-Minn.), John Hickenlooper (D-Colo.), Michael Bennet (D-Colo.), and Cory Booker (D-N.J.).\n\nThis letter is endorsed by Reproductive Freedom for All, National Partnership for Women and Families, National Women\u2019s Law Center, and Planned Parenthood Federation of America.\n\n\u201cAnti-abortion centers\u2014so-called crisis pregnancy centers\u2014push misinformation, rely on deceptive tactics, and endanger pregnant people by delaying access to legitimate care,\u201d said Reproductive Freedom for All President and CEO Mini Timmaraju. \u201cThese centers cannot be trusted to protect people\u2019s sensitive reproductive health data any more than they can be trusted to protect their health. We thank Senator Warren, Senator Hirono, and Leader Schumer for their leadership in demanding answers about Moms.gov\u2019s alarming promotion of these centers and their history of endangering people\u2019s health and data privacy.\u201d\n\n\u201cMoms.gov is propaganda for anti-abortion extremism, plain and simple,\u201d said Katie O\u2019Connor, senior director of federal abortion policy at the National Women's Law Center Action Fund. \u201cMoms.gov is taking advantage of the fear and confusion caused by the constantly shifting landscape of abortion access to direct pregnant people to dangerous anti-abortion centers, which are known to spread false and misleading information in an effort to dissuade people from getting abortion care. We are grateful to Senator Warren for her leadership in calling out the dangers of this website and demanding more information from the administration about why they are directing people to resources that could put women\u2019s health at risk.\u201d\n\n\"The Trump Administration is using Moms.gov to push a coercive, pronatalist agenda by promoting crisis pregnancy centers, or fake clinics, over actual reproductive healthcare providers,\u201d said Rosann Mariappuram, Director of Reproductive Health and Rights at the National Partnership for Women & Families. \u201cFake clinics seek to deter pregnant people from obtaining abortion care through lies and deceptions. They are known for reckless data practices that endanger the privacy of the women and girls who walk through their doors or visit their websites. Directing people to Moms.gov is one of many tactics anti-abortion extremists are employing to surveil pregnant people. We join Senator Warren in calling on HHS to remove the pregnancy center link from Moms.gov and instead use federal resources to help people get the care they need without fear or judgment.\"\n\nSenator Warren has led the fight to protect women\u2019s reproductive rights:\n\nIn May 2026, U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisc.), Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Patty Murray (D-Wash.), and Tina Smith (D-Minn.) led the entire Senate Democratic caucus in reintroducing a resolution affirming that the abortion medication mifepristone is safe and effective and underscoring that law and policy related to the medication must be equitable, transparent, and based on the best available peer-reviewed evidence-based science.\n\nIn May 2026, Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), and Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) led 12 senators in pressing the Chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) on the Commission\u2019s efforts to weaken a rule affirming employment protections for workers undergoing fertility treatments.\n\nIn March 2026, U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.); Ron Wyden, Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee (D-Ore.); and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) led 23 colleagues in publishing a new report revealing the harm Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress have caused to Americans in the six months since their dangerous provision to \u201cdefund\u201d Planned Parenthood, buried in their Big, Beautiful Bill, went into effect.\n\nIn November 2025, ahead of the Senate Finance Committee\u2019s confirmation vote for Thomas M. Bell, Donald Trump\u2019s nominee for Health and Human Services (HHS) Inspector General (IG), U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) exposed Bell\u2019s flip-flopping and slammed his extreme anti-abortion views.\n\nIn July 2025, U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) pressed Michael Stuart, nominee for General Counsel of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), on his dangerous anti-vaccine views, staunch anti-abortion advocacy, and more. Ahead of his confirmation hearing in front of the Senate Finance Committee later today \u2014 at which Senator Warren will question Stuart \u2014 Senator Warren sent Stuart a letter outlining her key concerns with his nomination.\n\nIn February 2025, Senators Warren and Duckworth pressed Dr. Mehmet Oz, President Trump\u2019s then-nominee for the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), on his hostile anti-abortion record.\n\nIn December 2024, Senators Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) reintroduced the Health and Location Data Protection Act, legislation banning data brokers from selling Americans\u2019 sensitive personal information.\n\nIn September 2024, at a hearing of the Senate Finance Committee, Senator Elizabeth Warren highlighted the dangerous consequences women faced after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.\n\nIn January 2024, on the 51st anniversary of Roe v. Wade, United States Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) spoke on the floor of the United States Senate about the fight ahead to restore abortion rights and protect reproductive freedom.\n\nIn December 2023, U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisc.) led 40 other lawmakers in introducing a resolution in support of equitable, science-based policies governing access to medication abortion.\n\nIn May 2023, U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii), and Tina Smith (D-Minn.) expanded their investigation into the effects of state abortion bans on women, as the country neared the first anniversary of the Supreme Court\u2019s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.\n\nIn March 2023, U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii), along with Senators Tina Smith (D-Minn.), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), and Cory Booker (D-N.J.), sent a letter to Walgreens CEO Rosalind Brewer, expressing concern regarding recent reports that the company would not dispense medication abortions in 21 states where Republican Attorneys General have threatened the company.\n\nIn January 2023, United States Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Representative Cori Bush (D-Mo.) sent a letter to the Department of Labor\u2019s (DOL) Wage and Hour Division (WHD) in support of their October proposed rule on employee status, which would help reclassify potentially thousands of misclassified workers.\n\nIn November 2022, United States Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and eight Senate Democrats sent a letter to U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Dr. Robert Califf encouraging the agency to defend Americans\u2019 reproductive rights and to consider steps to protect and expand access to medication abortion.\n\nIn November 2022, Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii), and Tina Smith (D-Minn.) released a new report: Post-Roe Abortion Bans Threaten Women\u2019s Lives: Health Care Providers Speak Out on the Devastating Harm Posed by Abortion Bans and Restrictions. The 23-page report \u2013 based on information provided by leading health care providers \u2013 reveals the devastating consequences of state abortion bans and restrictions enacted by right-wing legislatures and the impacts of Senate Republicans\u2019 extreme proposal to ban abortion nationwide after 15 weeks.\n\n###", 1, "2026-06-25T06:30:03Z", "2026-06-25T06:31:21Z"]], "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.warren.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/warren-hirono-schumer-colleagues-blast-trump-rfk-jr-for-steering-pregnant-women-to-misleading-anti-abortion-website"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 2.8914837166666985, "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"}