PROJECT 2025 REVISITED: Women's Rights
Even before the fall of Roe vs. Wade in 2022, women’s rights to life, liberty, and happiness were under consistent attack, with personal autonomy and reproductive freedom precariously hanging in the balance. With the Dobbs decision three years ago and President Trump’s re-election in 2024, these assaults have only escalated and worsened. Meanwhile, the extreme right-wing manifesto known as Project 2025 has largely become the policy blueprint of the land, leaving women in grave danger of losing their rights on multiple fronts.
Did our Project 2025 flyer get it right back in 2024? Unfortunately, the answer is likely yes. While the full chapter of this sorry saga has not yet been written, indications are mostly pointing in that direction.
As of this writing:
· Women’s access to abortion health care – even emergency life-saving care – remains completely dependent upon which U.S. state you live in, and could be completely erased depending on how your state votes in the next couple of election cycles.
· Abortion and contraception deserts are growing more common. These numbers will only continue to increase if we don’t change course legislatively and electorally.
· At least fifteen anti-abortion bills have been introduced in the U.S. Congress since the beginning of 2025.
· 41 states currently have some sort of abortion ban, with 12 having total bans.
· According to the Guttmacher Institute, as of last year, at least eight states have enacted or proposed restrictions on contraceptive access.
· Pregnancy itself is becoming increasingly criminalized. There are now known cases of women in the United States facing criminal charges for pregnancy loss. Not surprisingly, these women are often persons of color.
· In some ruby-red states, GOP-led legislatures are beginning to introduce, entertain, and debate proposals to end no-fault divorce.
We didn’t get everything 100% correct. In February 2025, President Trump signed an executive order requesting policy recommendations for the expansion of IVF access.
And here’s what we didn’t even see coming at the time: open-air attacks on women’s voting rights. Under the guise of keeping non-citizens out of the voting booth (a rare phenomenon at best), the SAVE Act (introduced in the House of Representatives at the beginning of 2025) also manages to disenfranchise married women when they register to vote, surgically targeting a large group of voters who may be less inclined to vote for Republicans in the years to come.
We will try to keep you posted as things continue to evolve.
