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

President Donald Trump on Friday used his executive authority to restore U.S. participation in two international anti-abortion pacts, including one that cuts off U.S. family planning funds for foreign organizations if they provide or promote abortions.

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.

President Donald Trump’s campaign-trail promise to leave abortion regulation to the states lasted just a few days into his presidency.

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.

The new Trump administration could put a stop to pending litigation on the abortion pill mifepristone and other federal abortion policies through changes at the Department of Health and Human Services, according to a top anti-abortion lawyer involved in several pending cases.

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,

Trump pardoned nearly two dozen anti-abortion protesters who were charged with FACE Act violations, marking the latest in a series of clemency actions