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Project 2025 Is Already a Reality in Many States [1]

['Ryan Koronowski', 'Senior Adviser']

Date: 2024-10

This article is part of a series from the Center for American Progress exposing how the sweeping Project 2025 policy agenda would harm all Americans. This new authoritarian playbook, published by the Heritage Foundation, would destroy the 250-year-old system of checks and balances upon which U.S. democracy has relied and give far-right politicians, judges, and corporations more control over Americans’ lives.

Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation’s 900-page plan for a radical government takeover of America, is not just some right-wing fever dream full of extreme policy ideas that could never become reality. The Project 2025 agenda is already taking root in many states such as Texas, Florida, Idaho, Missouri, and more. Taking freedom away from individuals and giving more to corporations; ripping reproductive rights away from women; endangering worker safety; outlawing local living wage minimums or the ability for businesses to voluntarily recognize unions; centralizing power away from the people; fomenting retributive political violence; prosecuting librarians over books radical extremists have deemed obscene or dangerous: This is the future the extreme far right wants for all Americans—and it has already succeeded in making it a reality for many. This column outlines how states are passing extreme policies—including some reflecting those presented in Project 2025—targeting all areas of Americans’ lives, from reproductive rights and democracy to the economy and education. Abortion and reproductive rights Implementing abortion bans Project 2025’s plan for the country: Project 2025, which defines life as beginning “from the moment of conception,” states that “HHS should return to being known as the Department of Life by explicitly rejecting the notion that abortion is health care.”

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“After Roe v. Wade was overturned and I learned about Georgia’s six-week abortion ban, I feared being criminally prosecuted for a miscarriage or being unable to access essential medical care like the Rhogam shot that saved my child and my life. If I choose to get pregnant again, I worry about not having options to protect my health.” — Julia C., Macon, GA

See also

Project 2025’s Plan To Gut Checks and Balances Harms American Workers Article August 12, 2024 Project 2025’s Plan To Gut Checks and Balances Harms American Workers Colin Seeberger

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