American Science is Vanishing.

Funding cuts to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) largely target women's health.

“American science is shrinking.”

That’s how the Washington Post opens its latest analysis which finds that through March 31, halfway through the 2026 fiscal year, the number of competitive grants awarded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is down by more than half compared with last year.

According to the Post, biomedical funding is also changing, cutting the U.S. research footprint across nearly every major disease area — including fewer grants focused on women’s health, cancer and mental health.

This is a massive red flag for women’s health, which we already invest very little funding in. In fact, we owe women’s centuries of research and while we were on our way to finally getting correcting that, it’s a whole new hostile world for women today. After a streak of historic investments and funding increases, women’s health is once again on the chopping block.

But we’ve come too far to go back now. We cannot stop crucial government funding for women’s health and rights! There is too much we still don’t know and women are done paying with their lives for the dangerous lack of research in women’s health.

“I think what we’ve seen from the Trump regime is just a massive devaluation of women,” OBGYN and physician, Kristin Lyerly told MS Now. “Research is just a piece of it.”