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   Haderach C. Kwisatch (rayckeith@techhub.social)'s status on Wednesday, 31-Jul-2024 08:37:11 JST Haderach C. Kwisatch

   "What makes Project 2025 so insidious is that any one recommendation may not raise red flags to everyday voters. For example, calling on the federal government to “prioritize funding for home-based childcare, not universal day care,” probably won’t sound so terrible to someone who would like extra support to be able to stay home with their toddler. But when you read that language in the context of the rest of the document—which calls for the end of birth control and women’s ability to get life-saving care—a much more nefarious picture emerges.

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   "Project 2025 has a very detailed plan to end abortion in the U.S. It’s not a coincidence that they want to rename the Department of Health and Human Services the “Department for Life.” That’s how big the groups behind this document see the federal government’s role in ending women’s reproductive rights."
   https://jessica.substack.com/p/project-2025-abortion-explainer

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     Haderach C. Kwisatch (rayckeith@techhub.social)'s status on Wednesday, 31-Jul-2024 08:37:09 JST Haderach C. Kwisatch

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     "The document calls for the CDC (now housed under the “Department of Life”) to create a national abortion database and adopt a surveillance system requiring all states to report “exactly how many abortions take place within its borders.”

     "But here’s the thing: While Project 2025 calls this ‘abortion data,’ what they’re really talking about is pregnancy data. Under a Trump presidency, this mandate wouldn’t just require states to report abortions—it would require reporting any pregnancy that doesn’t end in a live birth. The document says the CDC should collect data on every abortion, miscarriage, stillbirth and even “treatments that incidentally result in the death of a child (such as chemotherapy).”

     Bill repeated this.
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     Haderach C. Kwisatch (rayckeith@techhub.social)'s status on Wednesday, 31-Jul-2024 08:37:09 JST Haderach C. Kwisatch

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     Project 2025’s vision for women was never going to be limited to rolling back abortion rights.

     The goal is to force women back into the home, for good.

     Project 2025 attacks early childhood education, for example, claiming that children in daycare “experience higher rates of anxiety, depression, and neglect.” The plan calls for abandoning any plans for universal pre-k, instead diverting funding to “offset the cost of staying home with a child” and “home-based childcare.” Who will be at home providing this care? I think we all know.

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     Haderach C. Kwisatch (rayckeith@techhub.social)'s status on Wednesday, 31-Jul-2024 08:37:10 JST Haderach C. Kwisatch

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     "Under the Radar: Project 2025 doesn’t only call for the criminalization of mailing abortion medication but also the “interstate carriage of abortion drugs.” That means they want to criminalize anyone who transports abortion pills from one state to another in any way. In their America, someone who drives abortion medication just a few miles across a border is a ‘drug trafficker.’

     How Project 2025 Restricts Birth Control

     Feminists have been warning about conservatives’ attacks on birth control for decades, and Project 2025 makes clear that all those fears were well-founded.

     Emergency Contraception: Project 2025 redefines emergency contraception as an abortifacient, calling it the “week-after-pill.” The idea is to make emergency contraception—commonly known as the morning-after pill—seem less like birth control. This tactic is one conservatives have been laying the groundwork for over years, one we’ve covered often at Abortion, Every Day…"

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     Haderach C. Kwisatch (rayckeith@techhub.social)'s status on Wednesday, 31-Jul-2024 08:37:10 JST Haderach C. Kwisatch

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     "Under Project 2025, people who go to federally funded clinics for affordable birth control would instead be told to go get married.

     "Under the Radar: Republicans have already started their attacks on birth control for teenagers, and Project 2025 gives us a disturbing hint at what might come next. In the section about abortion medication, the document warns about the “potential impacts of the hormone-blocking regimen on the developing bodies of adolescent girls.” This is an argument I suspect we’re going to see used against contraception as well. Just as conservatives claim gender-affirming care shouldn’t be given to minors, they’ll say the same about hormonal birth control."