Trump Pulls Research Funding To Protect Pregnant Women From Domestic Violence, Citing 'DEI'

[littlemissmartypants]

Trump Pulls Research Funding To Protect Pregnant Women From Domestic Violence, Citing ‘DEI’

Homicide by an abusive partner is the leading cause of death for pregnant women in the U.S. – and researchers are gutted by the sudden cuts.

By Alanna Vagianos
Mar 27, 2025, 06:13 PM EDT

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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. Perinatal women are more than twice as likely to be murdered than to die from sepsis, hypertensive disorders or hemorrhage.

The grant was awarded last September after hundreds of hours of work from researchers, scientists and other staff, including some NIH grant officers, three of the four lead researchers told HuffPost. The goal was to create a three-day hybrid training program for OB-GYNs, public health researchers and other clinicians across the country to help spot and measure the correlation between domestic violence and pregnancy.

President Donald Trump has pledged to protect women, and yet research that could go on to save the lives of thousands of pregnant women and mothers has been unceremoniously cut. The move is particularly confounding given that Trump’s conservative Supreme Court repealed federal abortion protections, leading to nearly 20 states enacting abortion bans and forcing more people to stay pregnant.

With more pregnant women in the U.S. and maternal mortality rates on the rise, this research is arguably more important than ever. But it was caught up in the Trump administration’s broader campaign to slash all federal initiatives for diversity, equity and inclusion.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-admin-pulls-research-funding-protection-pregnant-women-domestic-violence_n_67e5bbf0e4b0e9fab0ffb1cc

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[Ilsa]

1. I don't understand why overcoming violent crime

is a DEI issue.

Trumpers' right hands don't know what the left are doing, policy-wise.

[littlemissmartypants]

3. It has little to do with crime. These are the criteria words:

These Words Are Disappearing in the New
Trump Administration
Federal agencies have issued guidance to
employees on hundreds of terms to limit or avoid using. An analysis of government websites shows many of the same words being removed.

Reference:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/opinion/trump-censorship-words.html
Archive:
https://www.archivebuttons.com/articles?article=https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/opinion/trump-censorship-words.html

[Ilsa]

6. Thank you. Now I see the detail of it, and its abuse. nt

[littlemissmartypants]

8. They are literally looking for...

Documents containing the word "women" and targeting the laws and policies.

Very scary.

[3catwoman3]

2. DEI in what way?

What kind of twisty-pretzel thinking makes this claim possible?

[littlemissmartypants]

4. Please see the criteria list above.

[3catwoman3]

10. I see that the list contains "people + uterus"...

...but not people + penis or people + testicles.

[littlemissmartypants]

11. And that's just a partial list that the NYT ...

Created from document reviews. There is another one that actually says "women" is one of the search words used in the AI program that they used to search documents for the so-called DEI infractions.

[Figarosmom]

5. Of course

Cause wife beaters are their vision of a macho man.

[Ilsa]

7. Yep. Trump raped his wife Ivana. nt

[Solly Mack]

9. K&R

[niyad]

12. And the WAR ON WOMEN continues apace!