A coalition of ten Senate Democrats and independent Senator Bernie Sanders on Wednesday escalated their attack on the Trump administration's new Moms.gov website, accusing it of directing pregnant women to anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs) that they say often dispense medically inaccurate information and jeopardize patient safety.
In a letter addressed to President Trump and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the lawmakers flagged what they called “profound concerns” about the portal, which was launched on Mother's Day. The site aggregates resources from roughly 2,750 pregnancy centers—many of which, according to Planned Parenthood, are run by anti-abortion advocates and lack licensed medical staff.
“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 senators wrote, arguing that the administration is effectively using taxpayer dollars to undermine reproductive rights.
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) called the initiative “horrific,” telling HuffPost: “It’s horrific that the Trump administration is using taxpayer dollars to prop up a website that pushes pregnant women towards non-medical anti-abortion centers. The Republican plan is to sneak through anti-abortion resources and backdoor abortion bans because they know Americans don’t support their extreme agenda. Democrats are fighting back.”
The senators specifically pointed to the site's direct link to Option Line, a 24/7 multilingual helpline run by Heartbeat International—an anti-abortion association that claims to operate the world's largest network of CPCs, with over 2,000 affiliates. Lawmakers noted that in a past data breach, Heartbeat International uploaded an unencrypted training video containing the names, medical histories, due dates, and even location maps of 13 women to the internet, raising serious privacy concerns.
“This 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 letter stated. The senators also accused CPCs of routinely “delay[ing] access to legitimate medical care,” which they said can lead to severe health consequences that put women's lives at risk.
The letter was signed by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), along with Senators Michael Bennet (Colo.), Cory Booker (N.J.), Tammy Duckworth (Ill.), John Hickenlooper (Colo.), Mazie Hirono (Hawaii), Ed Markey (Mass.), Tina Smith (Minn.), and Ron Wyden (Ore.). They demanded answers from the administration by July 8 on how many users clicked the Option Line link, whether medical professionals were consulted during the site's creation, and what steps are being taken to safeguard Americans' personal data after they visit Moms.gov.
The clash comes amid a broader battle over reproductive rights, with Democrats accusing the Trump administration of using federal resources to advance an anti-abortion agenda. The issue also echoes previous fights over data privacy and government overreach—similar to the court battle over Michigan voter data in the first Trump term, where privacy concerns were also central. Meanwhile, the administration's focus on social issues has drawn fire from some GOP fiscal conservatives, who are already resisting Trump's $1.5 trillion defense and Iran war funding push.
The Democratic pushback also underscores deepening partisan divides, as seen in the recent New York primary upsets where left-wing candidates ousted incumbents, signaling that the party's base is demanding a more aggressive stance on reproductive rights and other core issues.
