Trump ’s first term leave to the fall of Roe v. Wade — so I decided to dig deeply into Project 2025 and receive out exactly what the architectural plan has to say about contraception and abortion . Here ’s what I found .
By now, you’ve probably heard ofProject 2025. The 922-page document lays out a series of far-right policies for the first 180 days of a new presidency with thestated intentionof being “ready to carry this agenda out on Day One of the next conservative Administration.”
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Now that Project 2025 is getting more buzz, former President and convicted felon Donald Trump attempted to distance himself from it in the weirdest way possible. Trump, who madea total of 30,573 misleading statements or false claimsover the course of his presidency by the Washington Post’s count, shared a real head-scratcher of a statement about the plan on his own personal Twitter-dupe Truth Social.
So, while the plan isn’t Trump’s “official” platform as a candidate, it’s not far-fetched to think that a second Trump administration would likely draw on the policies laid out in Project 2025. Since Trump’s first term led to the fall of Roe v. Wade, I decided to dig deeperinto Project 2025and find out exactly what the plan has to say about contraception and abortion. Here’s what I found:
1.Under the Affordable Care Act, most health insurance plans are currently required to offer hormonal birth control methods at no cost to patients. This is great for folks who use these medications to prevent pregnancy and for people who use them to treat other medical conditions like PCOS and endometriosis. Project 2025 would like to see Trump’s previous religious and moral exemptions reinstated to allow employers to choose not to cover these important medications for employees and dependents covered on their health plans. This change would make it harder and more burdensome for some patients to get the medications that they and their doctors agree they should have.
2.Project 2025 also proposes removing one specific form of emergency contraception from the ACA’s mandate, calling it a “potential abortifacient” (it isn’t).
3.There is one type of contraception that Project 2025 would like to see expanded, however — fertility awareness-based methods. Think “the rhythm method.” According toPlanned Parenthood, these types of family planning measures are less effective than hormonal birth control, and even perfect use can still result in unplanned pregnancies.
4.Project 2025 urges the FDA to reverse its approval of the abortion drug mifepristone, citing 26 deaths of pregnant people taking the drug in over 20 years since it was first approved.
5.Project 2025 would also put a stop to abortion drugs being sent through the mail by relying on a “zombie law” from over a hundred years ago that hasn’t been enforced since the mid-20th century.
6.Project 2025 calls for changes to EMTALA that would no longer require hospitals and emergency rooms to provide abortion in the event of a medical emergency. EMTALA stands for Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act. This federal law requires hospitals that get Medicare funding to treat emergency patients “until the emergency medical condition is resolved or stabilized.” In response to state-level abortion bans in 2022, the Supreme Courtruledthat under EMTALA, abortion cannot be denied in cases where a pregnant person’s health is in danger.
7.The plan would also ban the use of taxpayer funds to help patients travel out-of-state for abortions.
8.Finally, Project 2025 includes a call for more rigorous “abortion surveillance” in the United States.
And that’s just the tip of the 900+ page iceberg. Project 2025 would also shut down the Department of Education, limit civil protections for LGBTQ+ people, end climate change and renewable energy programs at the Department of Agriculture, and so much more.
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