What health-policy changes might we see under Donald Trump ‘s administration? Much remains to be seen, but clues aplenty can be found not only in advisor Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s promises to help Trump “ Make America Healthy Again ,” but in Trump’s own Agenda 47 and in Project 2025 , the Heritage Foundation’s 500-page conservative policy plan to reshape the federal government.
Because while Trump has distanced himself from the latter, he shares numerous ties with its architects, many of whom worked in his last administration and on his transition team or campaign. Below, a glimpse into what might be in store for the U.S.
, health-wise, according to these two documents. Trump may ban abortion pills and so-called “abortion tourism” Without getting specific, the Trump administration says it “will oppose late term abortion ,” according to the official GOP platform that Trump’s website links to through his brief Agenda 47 points. It will do this, it says, “while supporting mothers and policies that advance prenatal care, access to birth control, and IVF (fertility treatments).
” Project 2025 goes further, suggesting that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention should stop “promoting abortion as health care,” and that all research and vaccine-creation involving embryonic stem cells or fetal cells “be prohibited as a matter of law and policy” (several vaccines are made by growing viruses in fetal embryo cells from tissue obtained by legally abor.