HHS and White House unveil moms.gov as a one‑stop federal portal for pregnancy and new‑parent supports

HHS and White House officials onstage at a public event introduced moms.gov, a new federal website that centralizes information for pregnant people and new parents including directories for pregnancy resource centers, federally qualified health centers, nutrition and breastfeeding guidance, mental‑health supports and related programs. A White House Domestic Policy Council representative said the site “empowers new moms with access to practical information and supportive services” and thanked HHS staff for developing the portal.

The Administration for Children and Families’ Alex Adams, who said his office’s focus is child‑care affordability, told attendees that two regulations and two guidance documents went live the same day to “restore parental choice,” broaden participation by faith‑based and home‑based providers and reduce what he described as one‑size‑fits‑all federal mandates that limit access to providers. Adams said the rules are intended to “put parents back in charge of their child care.”

Health Resources and Services Administration Administrator Tom Engles outlined HRSA’s role in maternal care and prevention, saying roughly 1,400 health centers operate more than 16,000 sites serving over 32 million patients and that, in 2024, about 600,000 patients received prenatal care at a health‑center provider (more than 70% entering care in the first trimester). Engles also highlighted investments in behavioral‑health integration and remote monitoring programs meant to detect conditions such as hypertension earlier in pregnancy.

Dr. Dorothy Frink of HHS’s Office on Women’s Health described a perinatal quality‑improvement collaborative of roughly 220 hospitals that she said reduced maternal mortality by 41.5% within participating sites, compared with a 5.9% decrease in a matched bench group; HHS and partners said they plan to expand that work nationally. Olivia Walton of Heartland Forward said her group will launch a five‑year effort to cut the U.S. maternal death rate in half, citing federal rural‑health funds as an available lever.

Officials also highlighted programs and pricing tools connected to the launch. Event speakers described TrumpRX, a government site for prescription pricing; a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services administrator at the event cited early user numbers and projected savings for fertility drugs. Secretary Kennedy framed a broader policy agenda around a reported U.S. fertility rate of 1.57, said NIH and other agencies will study environmental and metabolic contributors, and described a Working Families Tax Cut law that he said directs roughly $50 billion over five years to rural health initiatives intended to expand maternal services.

The event included remarks by advocates and parents who urged use of pregnancy resource centers and recounted personal experiences with center‑based services such as free ultrasounds, mentoring and material supports. Several speakers used the platform to criticize abortion providers and to promote life‑affirming care options; those contentions were stated as speaker claims during the event.

HHS officials said moms.gov is meant to “organize what already exists” and serve as a federal front door to existing services. The department asked attendees and partners to promote the site and to use the federal portal as a centralized access point for pregnancy‑related supports. The event closed with a request that attendees act as local ambassadors to direct expecting mothers to the new resource.

The launch included multiple program announcements and references to ongoing studies; none of the items announced at the event appeared to include a formal vote or rulemaking effective date beyond the stated guidance and rules posted by ACF that day.