The Plot To Turn Back The Clock On Women's Rights & More: The Hartmann Report ⏳
'The Plot to Turn Back the Clock on Women’s Rights,' Thom Hartmann, Truthdig, May 15, 2026.
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An ideological architecture is emerging that sees women as reproductive vessels for a state-defined ideal, with federal policy bent toward forcing them into that role.
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Last weekend was Mother’s Day, so it’s an excellent time to examine what the most powerful conservative think tank in America is planning right now for the women in your life. The Heritage Foundation, the same outfit that wrote Project 2025 and watched the Trump administration follow its playbook virtually to the letter, has been busy assembling a 90-page tract called “Saving America by Saving the Family.”
It maps out a future in which American women are stripped of their right to vote without their husbands’ paperwork, denied access to contraception and abortion, pushed back into the home and reduced to what Heritage’s new American Citizenship Initiative chair Scott Yenor calls the “heroic feminine” of motherhood and wifeliness. It’s quite a Mother’s Day card from the people who claim to revere motherhood the most.
Yenor wants:
— To make gay sex illegal in America again,
— Divorce to be “difficult to get or proscribed,”
— Adultery and sex between unmarried consenting adults (he calls it “fornication”) criminalized, and
— The Civil Rights Act to be “scaled back” so that businesses, schools, and “every other institution in the country” can once again discriminate against women, queer people and minorities the way they used to.
When pressed about Yenor’s record, reported in detail by The Guardian and LGBTQ Nation, Heritage didn’t quietly walk anything back. It instead invoked its “One Voice” doctrine, which means that what one Heritage staffer says is what the institution stands for, and it loudly stood by him. Even some of the foundation’s allies at The Atlantic winced publicly, but Heritage reportedly didn’t budge.
This is what billionaire-funded Christian nationalism looks like in 2026, and it’s been the project, almost without interruption, ever since the Reagan Revolution.
Most Americans don’t know how the Heritage Foundation came to exist;...
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-plot-to-turn-back-the-clock-on-womens-rights/
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