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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).”