Russ Vought Threatens Your Reproductive Freedom

Formerly NARAL Pro-Choice America

Russ Vought

Director of the U.S. Office of Management and Budget Nominee


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.

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Widely considered radical even in conservative circles, Vought has spent years building plans to rework the American structure of government based on a white Christian nationalist paradigm and wrote the Project 2025 conservative playbook that seeks to effectively ban abortion, restrict access to birth control, IVF, and gender-affirming care, and so much more.

Vought would oversee the President’s budget and the administrative processes to implement the policies outlined in Project 2025.

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Threats to Reproductive Freedom

Some of the cornerstone ideas behind Project 2025 for which Vought was a key architect include:

  • Effectively banning abortion access nationwide by misusing and misinterpreting 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
Background on this Role and Reproductive Freedom

The U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) assists the President in overseeing the preparation of the Federal budget and evaluates the effectiveness of agency programs, policies, and procedures, and works to make sure that agency reports, rules, testimony, and proposed legislation are consistent with the President’s Budget and with administration policies.

Vought's Record on Reproductive Freedom
  • Vought represents the worst of Trumpism and the Republican Party—he wants to cut off all access to abortion and enact state surveillance of pregnant people
  • Vought is celebrated by the anti-abortion movement for successfully blocking funds for Planned Parenthood during the Trump administration
  • Vought runs the Center for Renewing America, a think tank that backed arguments in a Supreme Court case attempting to undo the FDA’s approval of mifepristone, a widely used abortion medication
  • Vought and his fellow religious extremists want to fuse church and state, ban same-sex marriage, and gut access to contraceptives
  • Vought is a key architect of Project 2025, the conservative policy agenda designed to be Trump’s blueprint to decimate our reproductive freedom and other fundamental rights that he could begin launching on Day One of his administration
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