Tuesday, June 16: Trump Administration Defines Embryos as ‘Children’ With Embryo Adoption Program- In a call for grants from the Department of Health and Human Services, the Trump administration described frozen embryos as “children who already exist,” while allocating millions of dollars in federal funding to an embryo adoption program. (The program itself isn’t new to Trump; the George H. W. Bush administration started it in 2002.)

According to Gretchen Borchelt, vice president for reproductive rights and health equity at the National Women’s Law Center, “This revised grant language to call embryos ‘children’ may seem small, but it could have enormous consequences for abortion, IVF treatment, and birth control access for people nationwide. Defining frozen embryos as children gives antiabortion extremists so-called ‘evidence’ that they could use to convince an extremist judge that embryos and fetuses deserve the same legal rights as people. This type of move must be taken seriously and understood for what it truly is: a threat to reproductive health care rights and access nationwide.”