In the Rose Garden this week, First Lady Melania Trump announced alongside President Donald Trump an executive order creating several new task forces to refocus the federal government’s approach to women’s health.

In the triumphant words of Melania, “This is a transformative moment for women in America. Beginning today, we will change the reality of women’s health.”

The new task forces will be the Women’s Health Division at the National Institutes of Health (details yet to be announced) and the White House Women’s Health Task Force. Federal funds will be directed toward research to find cures for diseases that more often affect women.

White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will head the White House Women’s Health Task Force. Wiles is a great choice because she is a breast cancer survivor and a competent leader to boot.

Why is this executive order a big deal?

This shift in priorities puts real women’s health issues front and center. Women’s health, according to the Left, is always only about gender identity and abortion. For example, under President Joe Biden, so-called “gender-affirming care” and abortion on demand were all that the federal government seemed to care about. The Left’s health focus betrays the Hippocratic Oath to do no harm because both gender confusion and abortion do immeasurable harm to sufferers of gender dysphoria, abortion patients, and those around them.

As the first lady explained, the White House Women’s Health Task Force will address a woman’s health needs at every stage of life — “from young girls just starting out to mothers dealing with a complex range of responsibilities, to mature women who deserve to have vitality, dignity, and independence.”

Women have different health needs than men. Their pain, particularly when it involves reproductive functions, is often written off or given a metaphorical Band-Aid.

To quote Katelyn Walls Shelton, former special assistant on global women’s health for HHS:

Perhaps for the first time in over 60 years, we will begin treating women’s pain as an actual problem to be solved, rather than a symptom to be managed with a birth control pill. I’m hopeful that instead of selling women’s fertility back to them in their 30s via expensive and invasive IVF, we will give women access to healthy treatments that enable them to conceive naturally. And I look forward to the development of technologies that actually serve the health and flourishing of women, rather than treating their bodies as interchangeable with men’s.

Shelton also points out that under the Biden administration, taxpayer dollars were sent abroad to support its definition of “women’s healthcare.”

But while the Biden administration was using taxpayer dollars to fund the organizations that perform abortions abroad (something 77% of Americans oppose), one in 10 American women suffered from endometriosis, and one in eight suffered from polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome (PMOS), for which it takes on average seven and five years to be diagnosed, respectively.

In other words, instead of spending this taxpayer money on American women’s healthcare advancement, the Biden administration decided it was more important to send it abroad to help foreign mothers kill their preborn children. Our country should be ashamed.

Hopefully, other wrongs can also be righted with the help of this executive order — like the Biden administration making it permanently legal for women to receive abortion pills in the mail.

All in all, these task forces are a positive development. The political party that can actually define a woman is genuinely advancing women’s healthcare issues and seeking to better the lives of American women.

It’s what women’s healthcare should have been about all along.