{"id":1034051,"date":"2024-05-29T21:32:41","date_gmt":"2024-05-29T21:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1034051"},"modified":"2024-05-29T21:32:41","modified_gmt":"2024-05-29T21:32:41","slug":"%f0%9f%9a%a8-trump-and-project-2025-are-plotting-to-rip-away-access-to-contraception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/%f0%9f%9a%a8-trump-and-project-2025-are-plotting-to-rip-away-access-to-contraception\/","title":{"rendered":"\ud83d\udea8 Trump and Project 2025 Are Plotting to Rip Away Access to Contraception"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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In response to Donald Trump and his Project 2025 allies plotting to gut access to contraceptives nationwide, <\/em>DNC Spokesperson Aida Ross released the following statement: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEvery day, Donald Trump and his Project 2025 allies take their plans to restrict access to contraception further. With Trump\u2019s blessing, Project 2025 is creating an extreme and dystopian blueprint to ban abortion, gut access to contraception and IVF, and surveil women\u2019s pregnancies if Trump gets back into office. Trump and his MAGA minions are telling us exactly how far they\u2019ll go in implementing their dangerous anti-choice agenda if given the chance \u2014 and Americans should believe them.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

NEW: Donald Trump and his extremist Project 2025 allies are plotting to gut access to contraceptives.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Politico<\/a>: \u201cAs president, Trump enacted several policies that made it more difficult for people, particularly the working class and the poor, to obtain contraception<\/strong> \u2014 from allowing more employers to opt out of birth control coverage in their workers\u2019 health insurance to imposing restrictions on the Title X family planning program that triggered a mass exodus of clinics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cConservative allies want to reimpose those policies and go further if he wins in November. Their \u201cProject 2025\u201d blueprint includes proposals to require coverage of natural family planning methods and remove requirements that insurance cover certain emergency contraception.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTaken together, the policies highlight the many ways a second Trump administration could hamper access to contraception, short of a blanket ban. The impact would also be much greater now that roughly one-third of states prohibit nearly all abortions\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAs part of their 2025 wish list, conservatives want to overhaul which forms of birth control insurance companies must cover for patients at no cost under the Affordable Care Act. For instance, they have drafted plans to allow insurers to drop coverage of emergency contraception, such as Plan B pills, <\/strong>which some on the right believe are abortifacients because they make it harder for fertilized eggs to implant in the uterus\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDuring Trump\u2019s four years in office, his administration slashed hundreds of millions of dollars in funding from the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program and sought to repeal the Affordable Care Act, which has allowed at least 58 million women to access birth control with no out-of-pocket costs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFederal health officials in Trump\u2019s administration also issued rules allowing virtually any employer to refuse to cover contraception in their health plans, a policy supporters of the former president hope will be restored in 2025.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe administration\u2019s biggest impact on contraception access came from its overhaul of the federal Title X program, which provides free and subsidized birth control, STD screenings and other services to millions of low-income people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump recently left the door open for restricting access to contraceptives like Plan B. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Interviewer: \u201cDo you support any restrictions on a person\u2019s right to contraception?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump<\/a>: \u201cWe\u2019re looking at that, and I\u2019m going to have a policy on that very shortly and I think it\u2019s something that you\u2019ll find interesting.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Interviewer: \u201cThat suggests that you may want to support some restrictions? Like the morning after pill?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump<\/a>: \u201cYou know, things really do have a lot to do with the states. And some states are going to have different policies than others.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump and Project 2025 are collaborating to push an extreme anti-choice agenda to ban abortion nationwide, restrict IVF and contraception access, and allow states to monitor women\u2019s pregnancies. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rolling Stone<\/a>: \u201cInside the MAGA Plan to Attack Birth Control, Surveil Women and Ban the Abortion Pill\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe attacks on mifepristone and resurrection of Comstock stand out as particularly harmful proposals, but they are only two of the dozens of ways the Republicans behind Project 2025 envision restricting access to abortion and contraception if they win the White House next year.<\/strong> Elsewhere in the document, there are proposals to eliminate the morning-after pill from the Affordable Care Act\u2019s contraceptive mandate under the rationale that it is a \u2018potential abortifacient.\u2019\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Heritage Foundation<\/a>: \u201cConservatives have to lead the way in \u2026 ending<\/strong> \u2026 senseless use of birth control pills.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Hill<\/a>: \u201cTrump: It\u2019s up to states to monitor pregnancies, prosecute abortions\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Politico<\/a>: \u201cOrganizations including Heritage, former Vice President Mike Pence\u2019s group Advancing American Freedom, and the Southern Baptist Convention\u2019s public advocacy-focused Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission <\/strong>have worked behind the scenes over the last few weeks to distribute talking points, circulate policy recommendations and educate Republican officials and their staff about their ethical concerns with how IVF is commonly practiced in the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Axios<\/a>: \u201cThis is undeniably a Trump-driven operation.<\/strong> The biggest tell: Johnny McEntee \u2014 one of Trump’s closest White House aides, and his most fervent internal loyalty enforcer \u2014 is a senior adviser to Project 2025. One of the most powerful architects is Stephen Miller, a top West Wing adviser for the Trump administration.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Politico<\/a>: \u201cOn Tuesday, the Trump campaign sent a letter to pro-Trump, external organizations asking them to attend an \u2018entirely off-the-record, private,\u2019 and \u2018invite-only\u2019 meeting with senior campaign officials, according to a copy of the letter obtained by POLITICO. The sit-down, which the letter describes as a \u2018meeting of the political minds,\u2019 is aimed at discussing \u2018collaborat[ion]\u2019 and \u2018priorities and plans\u2019 for the general election<\/strong>. […]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBy holding the meeting, the Trump operation and the third-party entities could conceivably get on the same page about their plans. Two people familiar with the planning for the event said Heritage Action and Turning Point Action were among the pro-Trump groups invited<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Politico<\/a>: \u201cMany of the authors of the blueprint are former Trump officials, and the Heritage Foundation has spent the past year-plus recruiting people to implement the plans within the administration<\/strong>, Scott said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2018So they don\u2019t just have a long, sprawling policy document,\u2019 he said, \u2018they also have a growing list of staff who are being tested to see if they are loyal to Trump and if they are willing to administer this in his potential administration.\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

New York Times<\/a>: \u201cRoberts told me that he views Heritage\u2019s role today as \u2018institutionalizing Trumpism.\u2019 <\/strong>This includes leading Project 2025, a transition blueprint that outlines a plan to consolidate power in the executive branch, dismantle federal agencies and recruit and vet government employees to free the next Republican president from a system that Roberts views as stacked against conservative power. The lesson of Trump\u2019s first year in office, Roberts told me, is that \u2018the Trump administration\u2026 simply got a slow start. And Heritage and our allies in Project 2025 believe that must never be repeated.\u2019\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In response to Donald Trump and his Project 2025 allies plotting to gut access to contraceptives nationwide, DNC Spokesperson Aida Ross released the following statement:  \u201cEvery day, Donald Trump and his Project 2025 allies take their plans to restrict access to contraception further. 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