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Reproductive Freedom for All Slams New White House Press Secretary as an Anti-Abortion Conspiracy Theorist

Washington, DC — Today, President Donald Trump selected Katie Zacharia to serve as White House press secretary, a conservative commentator who has spread alarming anti-abortion disinformation, including a baseless conspiracy theory linking mifepristone to Nazi Germany.

Reproductive Freedom for All President and CEO Mini Timmaraju released the following statement:

“Donald Trump is handing the anti-abortion disinformation movement one of the biggest megaphones in government. Katie Zacharia is the latest anti-abortion extremist Trump has installed in his administration. We must put a check on their fringe agenda this November and block their plan to ban abortion after the midterms.”

Zacharia’s selection comes just weeks before the midterm elections—and days after reporting that the White House directed the Justice Department to hold off on abortion-related action until after voters cast their ballots. One conservative in contact with the administration said that after the election, “the gloves will be off.”

Now, Trump is turning the White House briefing room over to another anti-abortion extremist, making Zacharia the public face of an administration preparing to escalate its attacks on reproductive freedom once the election is over.

Zacharia is a former Department of Homeland Security spokesperson and current advisor to Trump Media & Technology Group. In a November 2025 post on X, Zacharia falsely claimed mifepristone is “connected to the manufacturer of the deadly gas Zyklon B.” Mifepristone has been approved by the FDA for 26 years and has a well-established track record of safety and effectiveness.

Zacharia joins a long list of anti-abortion extremists Trump has put in charge of the agencies that control Americans’ access to reproductive health care:

  • Todd Blanche, Attorney General: Promised anti-abortion extremists that the Justice Department would make the Dobbs decision “permanent in every single state.”
  • Heidi Overton, Trump’s nominee for FDA Commissioner: Called abortion “corrosive,” celebrated the overturning of Roe v. Wade as a “huge victory,” and pushed disinformation about the safety of medication abortion. If confirmed, she would oversee the FDA’s sham review of mifepristone.
  • Nicole Saphier, Trump’s nominee for Surgeon General: Dismissed warnings that abortion bans would endanger women with ectopic pregnancies as false information. At her confirmation hearing, she threw her full support behind the FDA’s sham review of mifepristone.
  • Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Secretary of Health and Human Services: Directed the FDA to conduct a “complete review” of mifepristone despite decades of scientific evidence proving its safety.
  • Erica Schwartz, CDC Director: Called abortion surveillance “absolutely a critical component” of the CDC’s work during her confirmation hearing.
  • Brian Christine, Assistant Secretary for Health: Led HHS to cut $38 million in grants for postpartum home visits, cancer screenings, and a program working to reduce maternal and infant mortality. The department redirected that money toward what it calls the “root causes of infertility,” including low testosterone and erectile dysfunction.

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For over 55 years, Reproductive Freedom for All (formerly NARAL Pro-Choice America) has fought to protect and advance reproductive freedom at the federal and state levels—including access to abortion care, birth control, pregnancy and post-partum care, and paid family leave—for everybody. Reproductive Freedom for All is powered by its more than 4.5 million members from every state and congressional district in the country, representing the 8 in 10 Americans who support legal abortion.