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SPOTLIGHT ON ABORTION CARE & REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE听

Project 2025: What Future Physicians Need to Know about Threats
to Departments of Education & HHS, Reproductive Health Care, Physician Autonomy & More

Written by Becky Martin, AMSASenior Manager of Reproductive Health Advocacy

is a 900+page 鈥�,鈥� that a step-by-step guide for a conservative presidential administration to implement an 鈥渆xtreme agenda across the federal government from day one.鈥�

AMSAReproductive Health Project allies at the and the have both analyzed Project 2025 and its plans for reproductive health, abortion care, gender justice, HHS, the Department of Education, and beyond. What we are learning about the impact provisions in Project 2025 would have on healthcare and education in the U.S. is frankly alarming us, and we want to make sure it’s on your radar too!

Here are a few general findings from NWLC we want to highlight, Project 2025:

• 鈥渙ffers sweeping policy proposals that would dramatically overhaul how our federal government, including departments, agencies, sub-agencies, and personnel, would function鈥�
  
  
• 鈥渟eeks to impose a hierarchal, gendered, patriarchal vision of society鈥� and 鈥渞einforce racial hierarchies鈥�
  
  
• 鈥渟eeks to dismantle all policies that are described as promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion and to reverse gains on gender justice and racial justice鈥� and 鈥渃alls for the elimination of federal funding for entities that promote diversity, equity, or inclusion鈥�
  
  
• 鈥渟eeks to harm LGBTQI+ people by narrowly defining sex to mean 鈥渂iological sex as determined at birth,鈥� seeking to deny transgender and nonbinary people鈥檚 existence鈥� and 鈥渨ould undermine protections against sex discrimination in health care鈥�

Related to Abortion Care, Project 2025:

• 鈥渃alls for the elimination of references to 鈥渁bortion,鈥� 鈥渞eproductive health,鈥� and 鈥渟exual and reproductive rights鈥� from all federal rules, regulations, contracts, and grants鈥�
  
  
• 鈥渄isavows abortion as part of health care. It seeks to recast HHS as the 鈥楧epartment of Life鈥� and would establish the mission of HHS as 鈥榝urthering the health and well-being of all Americans from conception to natural death鈥� 鈥�
• 鈥渨ould seek to increase federal surveillance of pregnant people nationwide by mandating state reporting on state abortion data鈥�
  
  
• 鈥渟eeks to drastically expand federal laws that allow hospitals, doctors, and nurses to deny patients the care they need based on providers鈥� personal beliefs, not based on what is best for the patient鈥�

Related to the Department of Education, Project 2025:

• 鈥渟eeks to eliminate the Education Department entirely鈥�
  
  
• 鈥渆quates the acknowledgement of transgender people with child abuse and pornography鈥� and 鈥減roposes harsh penalties against when school libraries include books that discuss transgender people鈥�
  
  
• 鈥渃alls for prosecuting 鈥榓ll state and local governments, institutions of higher education, corporations, and any other private employers鈥� that maintain affirmative action or diversity, equity, and inclusion policies鈥�
  
  
• 鈥渟trip ED鈥檚 power to cancel, discharge, or forgive balances, or modify the terms or repayment amounts, of student loan debt鈥�
  
  
• 鈥渨ould rescind regulations that made it easy for those who were defrauded by their college鈥攐r who attended an institution that closed鈥攖o discharge their loans鈥�
  
  

Find & share the full report by the National Women鈥檚 Law Center here

The Guttmacher Institute fact sheet details how its 鈥渇ar-reaching recommendations would severely limit reproductive autonomy and access to reproductive health care, while turning back the clock on hard-won gains, both domestically and globally.鈥澨� They find some of the 鈥渕ost serious threats to sexual and reproductive health鈥� in Project 2025 include:

1. Threats to Medication Abortion听

Project 2025 strategies include:

• 鈥渞estricting鈥攁nd ultimately eliminating鈥攁ccess to mifepristone鈥� and 鈥渞einstating medically unnecessary restrictions on mifepristone that require in-person dispensing and limit who can prescribe and receive the medication鈥�
  
  
• 鈥渆ffectively ending telehealth provision of the method鈥� and 鈥渞evoking mifepristone鈥檚 US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval, which would remove the drug from the market entirely鈥�
  
  
• 鈥渂ypass the FDA and effectively ban medication abortion鈥攁nd potentially all abortions鈥攖hrough enforcement of the Comstock Act, an 1873 anti-obscenity law that prohibits mailing anything 鈥榠ntended for producing abortion.鈥� The law could be used to prevent the distribution of medication and supplies needed for abortion care and if applied broadly, it could result in a nationwide total abortion ban.鈥�

2. Broader Attacks on Abortion Access

• Project 2025 鈥渃alls on Congress to codify into law the and Amendments, harmful policies that limit access to abortion care in the United States by restricting the use of federal funds for abortion care and coverage鈥澨�

3. Denying Access to Abortion Care in Emergency Situations

• Project 2025 听鈥渃alls for the Department of Health and Human Services to dismantle the abortion protections provided under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA). Refusal to enforce EMTALA鈥檚 protections for abortion care puts pregnant people鈥檚 lives in jeopardy, by forcing providers to risk criminal charges if they perform potentially lifesaving abortion care.鈥�

4. Increasing Misinformation, Disinformation and Stigma

Project 2025:

• 鈥渦ses charged, medically inaccurate anti-abortion rhetoric鈥攊ncluding language falsely portraying abortion as unsafe鈥攖o break down support for abortion rights and bolster efforts to criminalize providers鈥�
  
  
• 鈥減aves the way for increased criminalization of pregnancy outcomes other than abortion鈥�
  
  
• 鈥渟eeks to redefine basic sexual health education as 鈥榩ornography 鈥溾�� and 鈥渞ecommends replacing comprehensive with 肠耻谤谤颈肠耻濒补鈥�
  

5. Weaponization of Federal Medicaid Dollars

• Project 2025 鈥渃alls for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to encourage states to eliminate all Planned Parenthood facilities from their state Medicaid programs鈥� and 鈥渟uggests that CMS create a new regulation that would disqualify abortion providers nationwide鈥�

6. Attacks on Contraception

Project 2025:

• 鈥渟eeks to severely undermine two cornerstones of US contraceptive provision: Title X, the national publicly funded family planning program, and the federal contraceptive coverage guarantee of the Affordable Care Act鈥�
  
  
• 鈥減roposes reinstating the harmful 鈥渄omestic gag rule,鈥� which would prohibit health care providers who receive Title X funding from providing abortion referrals and would require them to be physically and financially separated from any abortion-related activities, including counseling鈥�听

7. Impact on Reproductive Health Worldwide

• Project 2025 鈥減roposes immediately reinstating the global gag rule, which would prevent non-US NGOs from receiving US government global health assistance if they used their own, non-US funds to provide abortion services, information, counseling, referrals or advocacy鈥�

Read & share the Guttmacher Institute detailed fact sheet here

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