The Project 2025 Bullet List from Ms. Magazine

It's a fascist's dream for an Iran-like religious state in America.

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Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation’s blueprint for the “next conservative presidency”—and the establishment of a Christian religious state in America that would be immune (that word again!) from future change—is staggeringly fascist. And at its very core, it is also shockingly misogynistic. And where you touch down on any of its bullet points, they all lead to a heterosexual male-dominant state. All things liberal, enlightened, and socially just wind up in its crosshairs, but the return to a world in which women are denied abortionand even contraception—in which they (and men) are to be celibate until marriage (and they must marry and breed)—is woven into nearly all its tenets.

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Here is the Ms. Magazine bullet list — but do go to their website and read all of their excellent analysis. The link is at the bottom — as is a link to the entire 920-page plan for your life.

Ms. Magazine’s synopsis:

Led and funded by multi-billionaires, such as oil moguls Charles and David Koch, conservatives have fought for years to cut taxes, deregulate business, ban abortion, eliminate civil rights protections as well as public health and environmental regulations, privatize government institutions such as public schools and prisons and eliminate welfare programs such as Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and food assistance.

Here we go …

Department of Education:

• Eliminate the Department of Education, which enforces civil rights law, including Title IX, which prohibits sex discrimination in education;

• Revert to the Trump administration’s Title IX sexual harassment and assault standards, which placed burdensome restrictions on the ability of survivors to report assault and obtain justice;

• Reverse the Biden administration’s definition of sex under Title IX to include sexual orientation and gender identity, and redefine sex to mean biological sex assigned at birth

• Increase public funding of religious education through expansion of “school choice” policies and give federal funds to states as block grants with no strings attached.

Department of Health and Human Services:

On abortion—

• Under threat of funding loss, require “liberal states” to report to the CDC, “accurate and reliable statistical data about abortion, abortion survivors, and abortion-related maternal deaths”;

• Require treatment of “fetuses born alive” after abortion;

• Withdraw Medicaid funds for states that require abortion insurance or that discriminate in violation of the Weldon Amendment, which declares that no HHS funding may go to a state or local government that discriminates against pro-life health entities or insurers;

• Audit states for Hyde amendment compliance;

• Require the CDC to track “abortion across vari­ous demographic indicators to assess whether certain populations are targeted by abortion providers” (based on false allegations of eugenic motivations);

• Reverse Biden administration support for travel to get abortion health care;

• Prohibit Planned Parenthood from receiving Medicaid funds and allow states to defund Planned Parenthood in their state Medicaid plans;

• Reverse FDA approval of mifepristone or at least go back to the pre-2016 limitation and prohibit the mailing of abortion pills;

• Prohibit stem cell research and stop “the development and testing of the COVID-19 vaccines with aborted fetal cell lines”;

• Affirm “rights of conscience” to deny medical care;

• Declare that abortion and euthanasia are not health care;

• Reverse Biden interpretation of The Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) that requires treatment of women miscarrying.

On gender-affirming care—

• Block gender-affirming health care

• End Centers for Disease Controls’s collection of data on gender identity;

• Block National Institute of Health research on gender identity and transgender health care and instead fund studies into the “short-term and long-term negative effects of cross-sex interventions”;

• Reverse Biden administration’s redefinition of “sex” to include gender identity, sexual orientation and pregnancy status.

Other—

• Add work requirements to receive Medicaid;

• Condemn single-motherhood and same-sex marriage;

• “HHS should prioritize married father engagement in its messaging, health, and welfare policies.”

Administration for Children and Families:

• Use TANF (welfare) money to promote “Marriage, healthy family formation, and delaying sex to prevent pregnancy”;

• Child support in the United States should strengthen marriage as the norm, restore broken homes, and encourage unmarried couples to commit to marriage.

And yes, Trump knows all about Project 2025, and if elected, there’s little doubt he’ll follow its precepts to the letter. Trump can manipulate but not think; he can bully but not create; he can scramble to save his hide but not keep an even keel even in calm waters; he can destroy but not heal.

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Ms. Magazine article: https://msmagazine.com/2024/02/08/project-2025-conservative-right-wing-trump-woke/

Project 2025 full text: https://www.democracydocket.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf