Trump changes pregnancy-prevention program to promote childbearing + ICE plans to offload SLC warehouse

By Christina Lords | Editor-in-Chief

A couple sits with their newborn inside their Bentonville, Arkansas, home. The Trump administration is shifting the federal Title X program, which has traditionally provided access to contraception, toward an emphasis on childbearing. (Photo by Antoinette Grajeda/Arkansas Advocate)

GOVERNMENT + POLITICS

Trump changes pregnancy-prevention program to promote childbearing

By Sofia Resnick

The guidance directs Title X clinics to promote “fertility-awareness-based methods,” such as period-tracking apps, which the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists says can be helpful for getting pregnant but less effective at preventing pregnancy.

It also calls on clinics to offer counseling on male fertility issues and to address environmental causes of infertility, including pornography use.

And it includes a prohibition on DEI efforts and warns grantees that federal money cannot be used to “facilitate or incentivize illegal immigration.”

Additional reporting: Family planning organizations sue Trump administration over Title X funding announcement

A planned ICE detention facility in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, March 18, 2026. (Photo by Spenser Heaps for Utah News Dispatch)

IMMIGRATION

ICE plans to offload Salt Lake City warehouse, report says

By Annie Knox and Katie McKellar

The Salt Lake City warehouse, one of the agency’s most expensive purchases, was purchased just days after DHS Secretary Kristi Noem was removed from the job. Since then, the site has been quiet, with no moves made by federal officials to move forward with the conversion.

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