A group of 11 senators have sent a letter to Donald Trump and Robert F Kennedy urging them to remove a federal website and “cease using federal resources to direct people to anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers”.
On Mother’s Day this year, the US Department of Health and Human Services launched Moms.gov, a resource they claim is for “new and expecting mothers” and “offers guidance and information to support the health and wellbeing of mothers and their families”.
The administration said the site “supports expecting parents who are navigating difficult or unexpected pregnancies” and “features information about pregnancy centers, federally qualified health centers, nutritional guidance”.
In their Wednesday letter, senators – including Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Chuck Schumer, Ron Wyden and Tammy Duckworth – criticized the site and noted that it “directs pregnant women to unregulated and often non-medical anti-abortion facilities known as crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs)”, which they said “raises profound concerns about the health, safety and privacy of people who access this government website at a time when women’s health and reproductive rights face increasing attacks”.
“Since the US supreme court took away the fundamental right to abortion care in Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization, 21 states have banned or severely restricted access to abortion, decimating access to care for tens of millions of people,” the lawmakers wrote in the letter, which was first reported by HuffPost.
“Yet instead of offering concrete resources to protect the health and safety of pregnant women and their families, the Trump Administration is using this website to highlight anti-abortion CPCs.”
The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) states: “CPC is a term used to refer to certain facilities that represent themselves as legitimate reproductive healthcare clinics providing care for pregnant people but actually aim to dissuade people from accessing certain types of reproductive health care, including abortion care and even contraceptive options.”
Staff members “at these unregulated and often non medical facilities have no legal obligation to provide pregnant people with accurate information and are not subject to HIPAA or required by law to maintain client confidentiality”, notes ACOG.
While there is “no standard definition of a CPC” and “differing perspectives exist regarding their characteristics and total number”, a Government Accountability Office report from earlier this year estimated there were between 2,400 and 2,800 CPC’s operating in the US in 2025. The report also said that the majority of CPC funding comes from private sources, such as individuals and non-governmental organizations, while a few CPCs receive federal funding.
In their letter on Wednesday, the lawmakers wrote that “Moms.gov is not about promoting women’s health – it is an attempt to use HHS resources to further strip women of their rights and privacy”.
They added: “In order to protect the health and data privacy of millions of women, HHS should remove the pregnancy center link from Moms.gov and cease using federal resources to direct people to anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers.”
The lawmakers also requested answers to a series of questions, seeking information about the website and how it was created.
The White House and HHS did not immediately respond to the Guardian’s requests for comment.
The senators’ letter follows a separate letter sent earlier this month by dozens of House Democrats, who raised similar concerns about the Moms.gov website and also sought answers from Kennedy about “HHS’s goals in developing, funding, reviewing, and operating Moms.gov”.
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