As part of the incoming Trump administration’s cleanup of information they’d rather people not have access to, the website reproductiverights.gov has been taken offline, it said. CBS News found.

The site was launched by the Biden administration in 2022 after the Supreme Court decision was overturned Roe v. Wadeincreases federal protections that give people the right to access abortions. The site, operated by the Department of Health and Human Services, offers information on abortion rights, informing people about what types of care are available to them and how to advocate for access to such care. -care. It also offers information on several other sexual and reproductive health services including breast and cervical cancer screenings, prenatal care, and HIV screenings. While the archived version of the site accessible through the Internet Archive, the information is no longer hosted in a dedicated federal domain.

With the overthrow of Roelaws regarding abortion care are left up to the states—meaning that access varies greatly depending on where a person lives. According to the Guttmacher Institute41 states have some restrictions on access to abortion, including 12 with a total ban on health services. Access may vary depending on how far along in the pregnancy process a person is, and exceptions may or may not apply.

This is exactly the type of situation where you want a constantly updated database that provides easy navigation and understanding of care options maintained by experts. So, of course, it’s gone.

This should not be surprising. Trump led a similar purge of science-based information hosted on government websites during his first term, focused primarily on information about climate change. On his first day in office in 2017, he removed all references to climate change from whitehouse.gov, removed pages related to climate change from the websites of the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of the Interior, and the Department of Energy, and basically tried to bury any suggestion that climate change is happening or has an effect on humans. Fortunately, if you ignore it, it will be fine Walk…TRUE?

However, the truth is that reproductiverights.gov and other federal sites going down is a bit of virtue signaling from the Trump administration. It is not the website that dictates the truth of reproductive rights, and there are many third parties that do Planned Parenthood, the Center for Reproductive Rightsand the Guttmacher Institute which provides actionable information for those seeking abortion care. Hell, you can even find information on abortion rights on government websites thanks to people who want to Congressman Dan Goldman of New Yorkwho maintains a list of resources for his constituents.

But the decision to remove the site on day one shows where this administration’s priorities lie. The Spanish-language pages for the White House happened to come down yesterdayalso, as did pages dealing with LGBTQ rights. If you want to know who is in the crosshairs, just look at who has had their access to information cut off.