A group of 11 Democratic senators sent a letter Wednesday to President Donald Trump and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. demanding the removal of a federal website they said uses taxpayer resources to steer pregnant women toward unregulated anti-abortion facilities.
The website, Moms.gov, was launched by HHS on Mother’s Day this year. The administration has described it as a resource for “new and expecting mothers” that “offers guidance and information to support the health and wellbeing of mothers and their families.” The site includes information about pregnancy centers and federally qualified health centers, among other resources.
In their letter, first reported by HuffPost, the senators — including Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Chuck Schumer, Ron Wyden, and Tammy Duckworth — wrote that Moms.gov “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.”
The lawmakers cited the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, writing that “21 states have banned or severely restricted access to abortion, decimating access to care for tens of millions of people.” They added: “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 defines CPCs as 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.” ACOG notes that staff at these 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.”
A Government Accountability Office report from earlier this year estimated there were between 2,400 and 2,800 CPCs operating in the U.S. in 2025. The report said the majority of CPC funding comes from private sources, though some receive federal funding.
The senators 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 asked HHS to “remove the pregnancy center link from Moms.gov and cease using federal resources to direct people to anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers” and requested answers to a series of questions about how the website was created.
HHS did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the Guardian.
White House spokesperson Allison Schuster said in a statement that “only Far-Left lunatics could take issue with expanding access to life-saving resources for expectant mothers.” She described Moms.gov as a “comprehensive, one-stop shop for information on federal resources for maternal and infant health” and said “nothing will stop the Trump Administration from Making America Healthy again, beginning with the critical step of creating brighter futures for all American children, born and unborn.”
The letter follows a separate letter sent earlier this month by dozens of House Democrats raising similar concerns about Moms.gov and seeking answers from Kennedy.