A new policy framework from the conservative think tank the Heritage Foundation proposes sweeping attacks on sexual and reproductive health and rights, including reinstating medically unnecessary restrictions on mifepristone and revoking its FDA approval.
The far-right blueprint would severely limit reproductive autonomy and access to reproductive healthcare, while turning back the clock on hard-won gains, both domestically and globally.
Decreasing access to medication abortion by either mechanism could in turn increase demand for procedural care, placing additional strain on clinics and increasing wait time for patients. A House Democratic Steering and Policy hearing on Project 2025 on Capitol Hill on Sept. 24, 2024. Project 2025 calls for the Department of Health and Human Services to dismantle the abortion protections provided under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act , a federal policy that outlines requirements for emergency departments that receive Medicare funds.
The plan proposes changing the Department of Health and Human Services into the Department of Life, complete with an anti-abortion task force to replace the existing Reproductive Healthcare Task Force and a newly created position of “Special Representative for Domestic Women’s Health” to lead anti-abortion policy efforts across agencies.
The agenda also uses the false implication that abortion is unsafe to justify proposals to increase pregnancy and abortion surveillance at the federal level. The plan suggests mandated reporting of abortions—as well as of miscarriages and stillbirths—by all states .
Project 2025 goes further and recommends legislation that would prohibit Title X funding from going to entities that perform or help fund abortion care. Legislating such a policy makes it harder to reverse in the future ; it would also disqualify providers who meet the gag rule’s already stringent requirements.
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