The Coup is Underway - part three
Project 2025 is "anti women" on steroids
Project 2025 is not a theory. It is a scheme to dismantle democracy. It is the playbook by which a Trump administration will replace democracy with servitude. Our nation will be governed by what I call the “American Taliban”.
Part one of our look at Project 2025 revealed how the Republican Party will fire thousands of experienced employees throughout the government - beginning on day one of Trump’s second administration. They will be replaced with loyalists who swear obedience to their king. Rolling back our nation to a time before our Revolution. Trump might as well be called King George VII.
Part two explained how Republicans will apply THEIR religious views to governing America. We will become a “Christian” nation - based on the ideas of a small minority of fringe believers. The Bible (as THEY read it) will reign supreme over the Constitution. A Founding Father’s nightmare - trashing the First Amendment, our Bill of Rights.
Part three of our examination of Project 2025 is chilling. Republicans believe they have a right to restrict women’s reproductive freedom and jeopardize the health of women and their progeny.
The first word that comes to my mind is audacity. The second is authoritarianism. The vast majority of Americans don’t want to be ruled by a vocal minority of bigoted misogynists.
From the Pew Research Center:
”While public support for legal abortion has fluctuated somewhat in two decades of polling, it has remained relatively stable over the past several years. Currently, 63% say abortion should be legal in all or most cases, while 36% say it should be illegal in all or most cases.”
From Media Matters:
”Project 2025 aims for the next conservative administration to attack reproductive rights from several angles, including by removing the term “abortion” from all federal laws and regulations, reversing abortion pill approval, punishing providers by withdrawing federal health funding, and restricting clinics that provide contraception and STD testing...
Project 2025 suggests the next conservative administration strike any mention of abortion from government laws, policies, and regulations. In the foreword of the Project 2025 policy book, Heritage President Kevin Roberts writes that a pro-life administration starts by removing the terms “abortion, reproductive health, [and] reproductive rights,” among others, “out of every federal rule, agency regulation, contract, grant, regulation, and piece of legislation that exists.” [Project 2025, Mandate for Leadership, 2023]”
Extremist Republicans want to wipe out women’s reproductive rights and the health care that accompanies it. The details in Project 2025 to that end are listed below. That could be the future. But here is what is happening NOW. Thanks to the Extreme Court’s Dobb’s decision that allowed states to deny women their reproductive rights, women and their babies are suffering and dying NOW.
From The Cut:
”A woman in Oklahoma was told to wait in a hospital parking lot until she was sick enough to qualify for an abortion. A Florida patient ended up on a ventilator after being turned away from the ER when her water broke early in her second trimester. A woman experiencing a miscarriage was filling diapers with blood and still was sent away from an Ohio hospital.
Please read this AP report:
Emergency rooms refused to treat pregnant women, leaving one to miscarry in a lobby restroom.
”One woman miscarried in the lobby restroom of a Texas emergency room as front desk staff refused to check her in. Another woman learned that her fetus had no heartbeat at a Florida hospital, the day after a security guard turned her away from the facility. And in North Carolina, a woman gave birth in a car after an emergency room couldn’t offer an ultrasound. The baby later died.”
A woman was denied care in Texas. She was diagnosed with an ectopic pregnancy. They sent her home. Pretty close to a death sentence. The doctors were afraid to treat her - due to insanely cruel Texas laws made largely by old white Republican MEN.
And yet it is FEDERAL LAW that treatment cannot be withheld. The audacity of states to violate that law is now before the Supreme Court. Will the court support Federal laws guaranteeing women their basic health care rights…or will they allow states to violate the Constitution (Article VI, section 2)?
Just in case we need more evidence that Republicans want to treat women as second class citizens - as chattel, we only need to understand that this week Senate Republicans refused to let a bill pass that would guarantee women’s rights to contraception. Senate Republicans can’t say that women have a legal right to employ the birth control pill. In the year 2024! How is this possible?
There are reasonable ways to disagree with Democrats and President Biden. I have my complaints.
But NOT VOTING BLUE on November 5th IS VOTING FOR CRUELTY to women and their families.
Below are the specifics of Project 2025’s mission to eliminate reproductive freedom.
Scroll past if you have read enough about how Republicans are attacking women - their rights and their health. It’s a lot to digest. Feel free to scroll down and share or comment. Thank you.
Media Matters report in some detail:
Project 2025 suggests the next conservative administration reinstate the Comstock Act to ban and track and limit “mail-order abortions.”
Project 2025 would have the next GOP administration restructure Medicaid to avoid providing reproductive health care and penalize providers who do. The policy book instructs the Department of Health and Human Services to “issue guidance reemphasizing that states are free to defund Planned Parenthood in their state Medicaid plans” and “propose rulemaking to interpret the Medicaid statute to disqualify providers of elective abortion…”
Project 2025 also suggests restoring Trump-era “religious and moral exemptions to the contraceptive mandate” through the Affordable Care Act that would allow employers to deny coverage. The policy book also proposes requiring education on “fertility awareness-based” methods of contraception and family planning and suggests eliminating condoms from Health Resources & Service Administration guidelines…”
The policy book directs the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to eliminate any programs or projects that are deemed pro-abortion. In a report detailing Project 2025’s proposed crackdown on reproductive and LGBTQ rights, The New Republic writes that Heritage recommends the next conservative administration direct the CDC to “eliminate programs and projects that do not respect human life and conscience rights and that undermine family formation…”
Heritage directs the administration to roll back Biden-era policies that allowed abortion access “in some circumstances at VA hospitals.” In its chapter on the Department of Defense, the book recommends reversing policies that allow “the use of public monies … to facilitate abortion for service members...”
Project 2025 intends to undo Title X protections for reproductive health care, which currently provide low-cost contraception, STD screenings, and prenatal care to low-income people. Though Title X funding has “never been used for abortion services,” restrictions sought by Project 2025 would prohibit “comprehensive counseling” on all of a pregnant person’s options…”
The policy book subtly promotes anti-surrogacy positions, writing that “all children have a right to be raised by the men and women who conceived them.”
Project 2025 aims to reinstate an expanded, Trump-era version of a longtime Republican presidential policy barring nongovernmental organizations receiving U.S. aid from providing abortion services or advocating for legal abortion.
The policy book would reverse a Biden administration policy that requires hospitals to offer abortions in medical emergencies regardless of state bans.
Project 2025 aims to end all fetal cell research and “ensure that abortion and embryo-destructive related research … become both fully obsolete and ethically unthinkable.”
https://youtu.be/JPbx1nCHLjo - The American Taliban in action
https://www.project2025.org/ - Read the actual document, but brace yourself. They have told us who they are and what they will do.
https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/fact-sheet/public-opinion-on-abortion/
https://www.mediamatters.org/heritage-foundation/guide-project-2025-extreme-right-wing-agenda-next-republican-administration
https://www.instagram.com/thecut/p/C6LbyB-MWOw/
https://apnews.com/article/pregnancy-emergency-care-abortion-supreme-court-roe-9ce6c87c8fc653c840654de1ae5f7a1c
https://www.cms.gov/priorities/your-patient-rights/emergency-room-rights
https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/supremacy_clause#:~:text=Article%20VI%2C%20Paragraph%202%20of,laws%2C%20and%20even%20state%20constitutions.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/05/politics/senate-vote-contraception-access/index.html
It is important to remember that the 2025 project goals aren't restricted to a re-elected President Felon. They are directed to "the next conservative administration," and won't go away just because President Biden wins in November. This fight will go on ad infinitum as well as ad nauseum.
A grim report about the fascist domestic terrorist force that the GOP has become under the influence of Herr Donald, but what these arrogant insurrectionist bastards don't anticipate is the hostile reception they will face if they actually get to implement their demented plans. America will look like Gaza if Trump gets back in the White House. Thanks for the reminder, but I think we, the people, will prevail in this ugly war started by the Republicans against all that is decent and beneficial for the common good. If not, we'll surely die trying.