Project 2025 remains in the news, and Trump keeps trying to deny any knowledge of it.

But he can’t shake the fact that Paul Dans, the now-fired director of the project, was a Trump appointee. (Pro tip: Firing someone does not erase their career history.) Trump also can’t shake the fact that most of the people in the training videos for Project 2025 also served in the Trump administration.

One of the key goals outlined in Project 2025 is rolling back women’s health and bodily autonomy as far as possible. Project 2025 says: “the Dobbs decision [that overruled Roe v. Wade] is just the beginning.” And they mean it!

The authors of Project 2025 go on to say: “… the next conservative Administration, should push as hard as possible to protect the unborn in every jurisdiction in America” (Mandate for Leadership, p. 6). As is usual in right wing defenses of states’ rights, they do this not to increase but to diminish individual and minority rights, and in this case women’s rights of bodily autonomy and personal health choices.

We don’t have to settle for an administration that is proud of rolling back Roe v. Wade, and wants to go further. Instead, we can do everything we can to help Kamala Harris and Tim Walz get elected. Their administration promises to work to enshrine Roe v. Wade’s projections in federal law. As Governor Walz says about women’s health decisions: “mind your own damn business.”

The way we can put Harris and Walz into office and protect women’s reproductive freedom is for all of us to get out of our comfort zone, as Marisol says above. We have a lot of opportunities for that at the bottom of every week’s Blue Review.

Sources

• Andy Kroll, ProPublica, and Nick Surgey. “Inside Project 2025’s Secret Training Videos,” (ProPublica, August 10, 2024).
• The Heritage Foundation. Project 2025’s Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise. : Washington, DC: PBS, as published on DocumentCloud. (Note: To protect your privacy, use this link, instead of simply searching for Project 2025.)
• PBS. “WATCH: Walz says ‘mind your own damn business’ when it comes to reproductive freedom” (August 22, 2024).