Michigan Dems warn against Project 2025 and reproductive health care in a second Trump term • Michigan Advance
As Republicans gather in Milwaukee for the Republican National Convention, Democrats across the country continue to raise the alarm about “Project 2025,” a collection of far-right policy proposals touted as a transition plan for a conservative presidential administration.
The initiative, launched by the conservative Heritage Foundation, focuses its proposals on four goals: “Restore the family as the center of American life and protect our children,” “Abolish the administrative state and return self-government to the American people,” “Defend our nation’s sovereignty, borders, and wealth against global threats,” and “Secure our God-given individual right to live free—what our Constitution calls ‘the blessings of liberty.'”
As questions about President Joe Biden’s mental fitness and prospects for success as a candidate continue to weigh on the campaign trail, Democrats have shifted their focus to “Project 2025,” linking this far-right plan to former President Donald Trump.
While the former president has tried to distance himself from the efforts to disassociate himself from some of their proposals, declaring, “I have no idea who is behind it,” in a Contribution to Truth SocialProject 2025 has been linked to a number of former Trump administration officials.
A review by CNN revealed that 140 former members of the Trump administration, including six former Cabinet members, contributed to Project 2025’s 900-page “Mandate for Leadership.”
The document contains a countless suggestions Restricting pregnancy and abortion, including removing emergency contraception from the benefits required to be covered by the Affordable Care Act, calling on the FDA to revoke its approval of chemical abortifacients such as mifepristone, banning hospitals from performing emergency abortions, and enforcing restrictions on the mailing of abortion drugs.
During a press conference supporting Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris on Wednesday, state Rep. Penelope Tsernoglou (D-East Lansing), Lansing Mayor Andy Schor and infertility doctor Dr. Molly Moravek expressed concern that the election of Trump and Ohio U.S. Senator JD Vance, Trump’s newly announced vice presidential nominee, could lead to a nationwide ban on abortion and in vitro fertilization (IVF).
“Trump has given us no reason to doubt that he will erode our reproductive rights; that is the only promise he has kept,” said Tsernoglou, referring to the Pride of the former president in the appointment of Supreme Court judges who helped the court Roe v. Wade.
Moravek noted that her patients with infertility are also at higher risk of ectopic pregnancy, or pregnancy outside the uterus. This is the leading cause of early maternal death, and there is no medical treatment that can save the pregnancy, Moravek said.
“Saving this woman’s life could be illegal for doctors like me if Trump comes back to office and we are given an abortion ban,” Moravek said.
Tsernoglou pointed out that Republicans in the US Senate are blocking efforts to Protect IVF And contraceptionwhile Schor Vance’s anti-abortion stance and his votes against IVF and contraceptive measures.
“I’ve heard people say in the past that there is no difference between Republicans and Democrats. Well, in this election today, the differences are stark: The Trump-Vance Republicans want to control women’s bodies and take away their reproductive rights with a Project 2025 plan,” Schor said. “The Biden-Harris Democrats want to give women reproductive rights and will both govern and appoint people to the event who will ensure that rights are given and not taken away.”
While the party platform adopted last week softened the party’s stance on abortion – it now opposes late-term abortions, “but supports mothers and policies that advance prenatal care, access to contraception and IVF” – the platform also supports the establishment of fetal personhood through the 14th Amendment, which the 19. Reports “would effectively have a ban on abortion at all stages of pregnancy,” which could be extended nationwide if courts uphold state policies that expand the right to equal protection under the law.
Schor also advised against taking the platform at face value.
“Party programs are the statement of a party. Those in government do not govern on the basis of a party program,” said Schor.
While Trump has backed away from supporting a federal abortion ban, saying the issue should be left to the states, Schor said that if Republicans gain a majority in Congress and refer the issue to the president, he has full confidence that Trump will pass the issue into law.
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