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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsInside the MAGA Plan to Attack Birth Control, Surveil Women and Ban the Abortion Pill
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/maga-plan-attack-birth-control-surveil-women-ban-abortion-pill-1234934807/No paywall link
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THE SUPREME COURT announced last week that it would take up a case considering restrictions on the most widely-used method of abortion in the United States: the abortion pill. Under a worst-case scenario for American women, that case could have triggered a full reversal of the Food and Drug Administrations approval of mifepristone, cutting off access to the medication across the country. That didnt happen. The Supreme Court said it would only consider a more narrow set of questions about regulatory changes that have made the abortion pill more accessible in recent years. It could significantly limit access to mifepristone, but wont end it altogether.
But it may not matter how the high court rules if Republicans win the presidency next November. Thats because GOP operatives have already crafted an expansive blueprint, 887 pages long, laying out in painstaking detail how they intend to govern, including plans to leverage virtually every arm, tool and agency of the federal government to attack abortion access. The document explicitly names their intention not just to rescind FDA approval for the abortion pill if they regain control of the White House in 2024, but to revive a 150-year-old law that criminalizes sending or receiving through the mail any article, instrument, substance, drug, medicine or thing that could be used to facilitate an abortion. That law, the Comstock Act, is viewed as a de facto federal abortion ban by reproductive rights advocates and anti-abortion activists alike.
Those plans and many more, including proposals to attack contraception access, use the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to increase abortion surveillance and data collection, rescind a Department of Defense policy to prohibit abortion travel funding, punish states that require health insurance plans to cover abortion, and retool a law that is currently protecting pregnant women with life-threatening conditions are outlined in Project 2025s Mandate for Leadership.
Project 2025 is an initiative of the Heritage Foundation, a rightwing think tank that has helped staff and set the agenda for every Republican administration since Ronald Reagan. It describes Project 2025 as the conservative movements unified effort to be ready for the next conservative administration to govern at 12:00 noon, January 20, 2025.
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Inside the MAGA Plan to Attack Birth Control, Surveil Women and Ban the Abortion Pill (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Dec 2023
OP
I've always wondered if Heritage Project was a Russian front organization. Guess so. n/t
TygrBright
Dec 2023
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samnsara
(17,650 posts)1. they can try
TygrBright
(20,772 posts)2. I've always wondered if Heritage Project was a Russian front organization. Guess so. n/t
rubbersole
(6,734 posts)3. Oligarch front.
Russians are a leader in their clique.
Hekate
(90,842 posts)4. Gods these people are sick, sick, sick