Alanna Vagianos

2 weeks ago | huffpost.com | Lil Kalish |Nathalie Baptiste |Alanna Vagianos |Matt Shuham

President Donald Trump loves to boast about protecting America‚Äôs children. But when you strip away his party‚Äôs ‚Äúpro-life‚ÄĚ rhetoric and ignore the carefully crafted family photos of Elon Musk or JD Vance, you see an administration that has declared war on wide swaths of American children. During Trump‚Äôs speech to a joint session of Congress in February, the president introduced a boy named DJ Daniel, who was diagnosed with brain cancer in 2018.

2 weeks ago | huffpost.com | Alanna Vagianos

The Trump administration this week gutted a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention division that monitors infertility and tracks national maternal and infant health outcomes, despite President Donald Trump repeatedly insisting that he supports in vitro fertilization and wants to protect women and children. The majority of the CDC’s Division of Reproductive Health was laid off on Tuesday, a handful of impacted workers told HuffPost.

3 weeks ago | huffpost.com | Alanna Vagianos

The Trump administration abruptly pulled funding last week for a research grant meant to protect pregnant women from domestic violence because it was categorized as a “DEI” study. The National Institute of Health grant funded a two-year project to create a training program for early career clinicians to measure intimate partner violence and pregnancy. The leading cause of death among pregnant and postpartum women in the U.S. is homicide by an abusive partner.

4 weeks ago | huffpost.com | Alanna Vagianos

The Trump administration is planning to freeze millions in federal family planning grants, a move that could significantly hinder operations at organizations including Planned Parenthood, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. The Health and Human Services Department is looking to pause funds distributed under Title X, a federal program dedicated to providing family-planning services for free or discounted prices to about 4 million low-income Americans every year.

4 weeks ago | malaysia.news.yahoo.com | Alanna Vagianos

Alanna Vagianos26 March 2025 at 5:14 pm·4-min readThe Trump administration is planning to freeze millions in federal family planning grants, a move that could significantly hinder operations at organizations including Planned Parenthood, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday.