The Lie that is Project 2025 and Why You Should Worry: Part 2

This is a continuation of the last post regarding Chapter 14 of the Heritage Foundation’s “Project 2025.”

Roger Severino the author of Chapter 14 on the Department of Health and Human Services shows in the starkest terms how much of an ultra-conservative Christian manifesto this is. A few news outlets and advocacy groups have done a deep dive into the “project” and you can find them with a Google search.[1] Here I just want to provide you a list of the main points of the Heritage Foundation’s efforts to gut our current health care system and send us back to the 1950’s.

 Control women

·      No funding under any circumstances (not even via private insurance) for abortion

·      No abortion exceptions for rape, incest, or the life of the mother

·      Force the FDA to reverse its approval of abortion medications

·      Restrict access to birth control.

·      Take away access to free emergency contraeption

·      Prohibit health facilities that receive Title X funding from distributing condoms

·      Find ways to outlaw IVF

·      Roll-back no-fault divorce

·      Do away with the Head Start program for low-income preschoolers

Promote capitalism to control health care

·      Strip the CDC from providing public health advice

·      Use the CDC to police abortion providers

·      Force HHS to promote private-sector health insurance plans for seniors

·      Repeal the government’s ability to negotiate drug prices

·      Impose life-time limits (36-months?) on Medicaid (even for infants and regardless of finances) threatening up to 18.5 million Americans

·      Fundamentally gut Medicaid

Impose “biblically based” social science throughout the entire federal government

·      Promote marriage only between men and women

·      Condemn single-motherhood and same-sex marriage

·      Cancel DEI programs government wide.

·      Cancel programs that support LGBT citizens including research on their health needs

·      Block any gender-affirming care

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[1] Here’s one: “Project 2025: Exposing the Far-Right Assault on America,” The Center for American Progress(https://www.americanprogress.org/series/project-2025-exposing-the-far-right-assault-on-america/).