South Dakota used to try forcing women considering abortions to go to “counseling” at lying fundagelical “crisis pregnancy centers”… at least until a federal court declared that law unconstitutional and until the Trump Court obviated the need for such coercive counseling by letting us ban abortion completely. Immediately post-Dobbs, then-Governor Kristi Noem put up a state website directing pregnant women to the religious propaganda of CPCs the Alpha Center and the Black Hills Pregnancy Center.
The Trump Administration now follows Noem’s example with Moms.gov, a federal website directing pregnant women to more anti-science, anti-woman crisis pregnancy centers:
Moms.gov, meanwhile, provides little in the way of actual support for pregnant women. It links them, instead, to anti-choice crisis pregnancy centers, Christian organizations that pose as clinics in order to confuse and trap pregnant women who would otherwise seek abortions. Crisis pregnancy centers often provide pregnancy tests and even ultrasounds, but routinely overstate gestational age, misleading women into believing that they are past the legal limit for abortions, and frequently promise aid, like diapers or cribs, that is not forthcoming or turns out to be contingent upon religious education for expectant parents. They are not medical centers, and they are not reliable: they are meant to deceive women, to trick them into giving up control over their bodies and lives, and to condescend to them, treating them as resources to be extracted from rather than persons endowed with dignity and entitled to the truth. In that sense, they’re a decent metaphor for the Trump administration itself [Moira Donegan, “Trump’s New Moms.gov Website Is an Anti-Choice Hub That Misleads Women,” The Guardian, 2026.05.15].
Strangely, at a time when women are propping up the workforce while men are dropping out, Moms.gov is peddling the hard conservative line that women should stay home and make babies:
“We know that there is a conservative movement to push women out of the workforce and out of public life, and this website feeds into that agenda,” Emily Martin, chief program officer at the National Women’s Law Center, told Salon. “It extensively warns about the risks of working while pregnant while failing to provide any information about pregnant workers’ legal rights and protections.”
As Martin mentioned, moms.gov links to a CDC page that warns “workplace exposures” could affect the health of “unborn children” [Nicole Karlis, “Moms.gov Is ‘Propaganda’—Not What American Moms Really Need,” Salon, 2026.05.17].
Like the South Dakota lawmakers who pushed crisis pregnancy centers, the Trump Administration doesn’t want women to be equal and empowered participants in the economy and the republic. It just wants breeders.