Reproductive Freedom for All Condemns Trump’s Nomination of Project 2025 Architect As Director of the Office of Management and Budget  - Reproductive Freedom for All®

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Reproductive Freedom for All Condemns Trump’s Nomination of Project 2025 Architect As Director of the Office of Management and Budget 

For Immediate Release: November 22, 2024

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Reproductive Freedom for All Condemns Trump’s Nomination of Project 2025 Architect As Director of the Office of Management and Budget 

Washington, DC — Today, President-elect Donald Trump announced he will nominate Russ Vought to director of the U.S. Office of Management and Budget. Vought is an anti-abortion extremist who has spoken about how his organization is seeking to block access to Planned Parenthood. He is a key architect of Project 2025, the conservative policy agenda designed to be Trump’s blueprint to decimate our fundamental rights and democracy that he could begin launching on Day One of his administration. On the campaign trail, Trump attempted to distance himself from the plan, which would effectively ban abortion nationwide and threaten our democracy, despite the vast number of people connected to him and his last administration involved in the project. Vought is just the latest Trump nominee with ties to Project 2025.

Reproductive Freedom for All President and CEO Mini Timmaraju released the following statement:

“Trump’s nomination of a Project 2025 architect shows that despite his false claims on the campaign trail he’s installing documented anti-abortion extremists willing to help his administration do anything it can to further dismantle our rights. Our fight to stop them cannot waiver, and our 4 million members won’t back down.” 

Project 2025 outlines numerous ways for a second Trump administration to further decimate reproductive freedom:

  • The plan includes language and policies that propagate the belief that life begins at conception. This so-called “personhood” language could ban abortion, some forms of birth control, and assisted fertility treatments like IVF.
  • It also wilfully misinterprets and misuses the antiquated Comstock Act to block access to both abortion pills and medical equipment used for abortion care. This would effectively ban abortion in all 50 states—with or without the support of Congress and the courts.
  • The plan calls for the administration to stop enforcing a federal law requiring that hospitals provide emergency care to pregnant people who need an abortion. This would force countless more people to endure the tragic and life-threatening situations we’ve already heard so many horror stories about.

There is every reason to think Trump and his cabinet nominees will follow through with their plans. During his presidency, Trump did everything in his power to roll back access to reproductive health care, including abortion. He stacked the federal judiciary with conservative ideologues and built the anti-abortion supermajority on the Supreme Court that overturned Roe v. Wade, opening the door for abortion bans. He also installed anti-abortion extremists in key leadership roles, put the harmful domestic gag rule in place and both reinstated and expanded the global gag rule.

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For over 50 years, Reproductive Freedom for All (formerly NARAL Pro-Choice America) has fought to protect and advance reproductive freedom at the federal and state levels—including access to abortion care, birth control, pregnancy and post-partum care, and paid family leave—for everybody. Reproductive Freedom for All is powered by its more than 4 million members from every state and congressional district in the country, representing the 8 in 10 Americans who support legal abortion.