FDA Commissioner
NOMINEE
Martin Makary
The Fox News contributor who has pushed anti-abortion disinformation on air could effectively ban medication abortion and control the availability and affordability of birth control nationwide.
Repro Freedom Issues Deep Dives
The Trump Cabinet Picks Who Most Threaten Your Reproductive Freedom
Urge your Senators to vote NO on the dangerous appointees poised to wreak havoc on your health and life.
TL;DR (too long, didn’t read) summary:
Donald Trump has wasted no time nominating radical extremists to cabinet positions that will have devastating consequences for birth control, abortion, and our health and well-being—but together we can fight back and make sure our senators don’t confirm these nominees.
The Trump Cabinet Picks Poised to Decimate Reproductive Freedom
Administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services(CMS)
NOMINEE
Mehmet Oz
The unqualified anti-abortion extremist would oversee one of the largest federal agencies that administers vital health care programs to over 160 million Americans.
U.S. Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights
NOMINEE
Harmeet Dhillon
A self-described "lawyer for the pro-life movement” would lead the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice, threatening our safety and reproductive rights.
U.S. Solicitor General
NOMINEE
John Sauer
An anti-abortion extremist and donor who could influence the government’s legal position on federal laws that pertain to reproductive freedom.
Director of the Office of Legal Policy
NOMINEE
Aaron Reitz
A self-proclaimed "pro-life" attorney who brags about his anti-abortion extremism would have the power to explore every legal and judicial avenue to ban abortion in the U.S. Department of Justice alongside Pam Bondi.
U.S. Attorney General CONFIRMED
Pam Bondi
She upheld Florida's restrictive abortion ban and would have the power to effectively ban abortion nationwide.
U.S. Secretary of Defense CONFIRMED
Pete Hegseth
A Fox News media personality and alleged sexual predator who lies about abortion on TV could oversee the health and safety of millions of military service members, civilian personnel, and dependents.
Secretary of Health and Human Services CONFIRMED
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
The failed presidential candidate voiced support for a national abortion ban and would have the power to significantly roll back or block access to sexual and reproductive health care.
U.S. Secretary of State CONFIRMED
Marco Rubio
He actively voted and campaigned to restrict global sexual and reproductive health and rights, and would have the power to do just that in this role.
Director of the U.S. Office of Management and Budget
CONFIRMED
Russ Vought
The radical, right-wing extremist and Project 2025 architect would have the financial and administrative power to bring his alarming anti-abortion agenda to life.
It’s clear that Trump is ready to make Project 2025 a reality.
Project 2025 is the conservative plan to devastate reproductive freedom, including abortion, contraception, IVF, health privacy, and gender justice issues.
The barrage of assaults on abortion access has not stopped since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, and it will only escalate further under Trump’s second presidency.
The patchwork of state bans, the weaponization of government policies, and the efforts to use a court system stacked with Trump-appointed judges to block abortion access have already caused widespread harm nationwide including denied emergency care and tragic, preventable deaths.
At the end of the day, all of Trump’s cabinet nominees work for Trump and were selected because they are loyalists who will not challenge him.
Even though Trump says he won’t sign a federal abortion ban, his radical appointees are clearly intent on decimating reproductive freedom and they’ll have the power to do so.
Project 2025 Background
Project 2025 is the conservative plan for Trump’s second term created by his most trusted administration officials and allies.
The 900-page conservative policy agenda spells out how Trump’s administration will decimate our fundamental rights and democracy. The plan is so radically extremist that Trump adamantly denied knowing anything about it on the campaign trail.
Clearly that couldn’t be further from the truth—at least 140 people who worked in the first Trump administration had a hand in crafting it, and now at least 17 of Trump’s cabinet nominees are associated with either Project 2025 or the extremist conservative think tank, America First Policy Institute, that wrote it.
Threats to Reproductive Freedom
Some of the cornerstone ideas behind Project 2025 include:
- Effectively banning abortion access nationwide by misusing the Comstock Act to block access to abortion pills and medical equipment and rescinding FDA approval of abortion medication
- Restricting 48 million people from accessing contraception by making changes to the Affordable Care Act
- Making IVF “fully obsolete”
- Creating a surveillance state that tracks births and abortions
- Allowing states to deny pregnant people emergency care and employers to deny birth control coverage
- Weaving anti-abortion extremist rhetoric and disinformation into federal health policy
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