Trump’s “Project 2025” Calls for Dangerous Changes to Health Care in Maine, Including an Abortion Ban

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Abortion remains a top motivatding issue for voters ahead of the November 5 election, particularly for women and young voters.  Yet anti-abortion politicians and their allies have highlighted their plans to dramatically reshape American government and implement dangerous policies including a nationwide ban, which would have devastating impacts on pregnant people and families across the country, including here in Maine.

A Navigator Reearch polling shows that a majority of Americans say they could not support an elected official who supports banning contraception, banning IVF or a nationwide abortion ban .  Additionally, Navigator Research polling shows that a majority of Americans say they could not support an elected official who supports banning health care for transgender people.

Project 2025 is a dangerour proposal that aims to radically reshape American life and the government as we know it and threaten the rights and freedoms of everyone in this country.  While Maine has strong state laws protecting abortion access and related reproductive care, the goals in Project 2025 aim to supersede state laws, including banning abortion nationwide.

Put forth by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative  group connected to a major far-right political donor, Leonard Leo and related political action committees, the 902 page Project 2025 plan makes clear that the author and political actors behind it plan to take away reproductive freedoms and LGBTQ+ rights on all fronts.

Project 2025 calls for sweeping actions within the first 180 days of a Trump administration.  Three of these follow:

  1. Enforcing the Comstock Act – an anti-vice law from 1873 to sharply restrict abortion care by criminalizing sending or receiving supplies used for abortion through the mail………the Comstock Act could easily be  misapplied by the Department of Justice hostile to reproductive rights.
  2. Eliminate funding to abortion providers nationwide, including those who provide care to a dispropronate share of people with low-income and/or live in underserved communities.
  3. Stripping LGBTQ+ people of access to essential health care services.

Project 2025 is unpopular with the American public.  A majority of Americans, 52%, oppose Project 2025.  A U Massachusetts Amherst poll found that 68% oppose replacing government officials with political appointees.

 

 

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