Misogynist Manifesto: Project 2025 Says Yes to 'Biblically Based Marriages' and No to Reproductive Rights Pt. 1

Misogynist Manifesto: Project 2025 Says Yes to ‘Biblically Based Marriages’ and No to Reproductive Rights Pt. 1
PUBLISHED 9/9/2024 by Carrie N. Baker



Kevin Roberts, president of The Heritage Foundation, speaks with members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus during a news conference on Capitol Hill on Sept 12, 2023. (Jabin Botsford / The Washington Post via Getty Images)

This is part one in a three-part series about Project 2025, the extremist blueprint for the next Republican president that maps out the permanent reversal of more than 50 years of hard-fought gains for American women and girls. Here’s how it would play out.


You’ve probably heard about the Heritage Foundation’s detailed plan for the next Republican president. Called the Project 2025 Presidential Transition Project (and funded by the dark money networks affiliated with Leonard Leo and Charles Koch), the plan maps out how to reverse more than 50 years of gains for American women and girls in employment, education, reproductive rights and more. The project has four pillars: an 887-page policy agenda, a personnel data-base of vetted conservatives, a “presidential administration academy” to train these pre-selected individuals to achieve the Project 2025 policy agenda, and a 180-day “playbook”—what the plan’s backers hope to achieve in the first 180 days if Donald Trump takes office again in January 2025. According to Project 2025, “It is not enough for conservatives to win elections. If we are going to rescue the country from the grip of the radical Left, we need both a governing agenda and the right people in place, ready to carry this agenda out on Day One of the next conservative Administration.”
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In his foreword, Kevin Roberts, the Heritage Foundation president, makes clear that dismantling women’s rights is central to Project 2025’s policy agenda. “The next conservative President must make the institutions of American civil society hard targets for woke culture warriors,” he writes. “This starts with deleting the terms sexual orientation and gender identity (“SOGI”), diversity, equity, and inclusion (“DEI”), gender, gender equality, gender equity, gender awareness, gender-sensitive, abortion, reproductive health, reproductive rights, and any other term used to deprive Americans of their First Amendment rights out of every federal rule, agency regulation, contract, grant, regulation, and piece of legislation that exists.”


Michigan state Sen. Mallory McMorrow holds up a Project 2025 book at the 2024 Democratic National Convention in Chicago on Aug. 19, 2024. (Bill Clark / CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)


Promoting the Patriarchal Family and ‘Biblically Based Marriage’

Project 2025 promotes traditional heterosexual marriage, stigmatizing single parenthood and same-sex spouses, and cutting programs to support single mothers and their children. It directs the next president to develop policies and programs to “maintain a biblically based, social science-reinforced definition of marriage and family.” The document explains: “For the sake of child well-being, programs should affirm that children require and deserve both the love and nurturing of a mother and the play and protection of a father,” reflecting narrow and antiquated ideas of parenting. The Christian fundamentalist idea of a “biblically based marriage” sets men as breadwinners and leaders in the family, while women are subordinate to their husbands and serve them as caregivers of children.
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Destroying Reproductive Rights

Proposals to restrict reproductive rights pervade Project 2025’s policy agenda, focused not only on abortion but also on contraception, sex education and gender-affirming healthcare. The plan would eliminate the Reproductive Healthcare Access Task Force within the Department of Health and Human Services and replace it with the “Department of Life” to eliminate support for reproductive rights throughout the federal government. On abortion, Project 2025 calls on the next president to direct the Food and Drug Administration to reverse approval of the abortion pill mifepristone (now used in 63 percent of all abortions) and to ban telehealth abortion (used for nearly one-fifth of abortions in the U.S.). Project 2025 directs the Department of Justice to misuse an 1873 anti-obscenity law, the Comstock Act, to criminally prosecute anyone who mails abortion pills and potentially any medical instrument used in procedural abortion—effectively establishing a nationwide ban on abortion.

An advertisement from the Lincoln Project, an anti-Trump pro-democracy group, presenting a dark vision of the future for millions of American women if Trump defeats Harris in the presidential election and criminalizes abortion nationwide.

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