But Trump — who has been enthusiastically backed by the self-described ‘pro-life’ movement — undid those protections with his own order Friday.

Separately, the Trump administration announced it would rejoin the “Geneva Consensus Declaration”, a 2020 statement of countries saying they hope to “protect life at all stages”.

Those moves “are direct assaults on the health and human rights of millions of people around the world,” Rachana Desai Martin of the Center for Reproductive Rights said in a statement.

Trump rescinds two of Biden’s executive orders

The order responded to concern that women’s data such as their geolocation and apps that monitor their menstrual cycles could be used to go after those who have had abortions.

The moves are part of a flurry of orders Trump has issued since returning to the Oval Office shoring up his right-wing agenda.

Promises to protect ‘historic gains’ of anti-abortion movement

At least 100 members of the Patriot Front, a white supremacist group, marched in military style to the sidelines of the rally and stood in columns holding US flags, Christian symbols and banners reading “Strong families make strong nations”.

Thomas Ryan Rousseau (centre) and members of a group calling themselves Patriot Front attended this year’s March for Life rally in the United States. Source: AAP / Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP

Their leader Thomas Rousseau — flanked by two men with white bandanas covering their faces — told AFP he believed in “patriotic principles,” including the “restitution of the American family unit”.