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The shift in priorities for the Office of Refugee Resettlement is part of the larger story of the Trump administration’s push to enact rules that favor socially conservative positions on issues like abortion. Meanwhile, even though research shows that criminalizing women seeking out the procedure is dangerous to their health, antiabortion activists have recently been focusing on strategies to do just that.