EMILYs List Statement on Project 2025

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today Project 2025, an extremist playbook created by the conservative Heritage Foundation that aims to pass a national abortion ban, jail health care providers, ban medication abortion — and more — announced that it would wind down policy operations and that its director has stepped down. EMILYs List President Jessica Mackler released the following statement:
 
“Today’s reports change nothing: We know that Donald Trump and JD Vance embrace the most insidious tactics outlined in Project 2025. They are denying connections to Project 2025 only because they know how deeply out-of-touch its dark agenda is with the American people. But voters aren’t fooled. They know if Trump wins, this is exactly how he will govern, with an extremist agenda that would jeopardize reproductive freedom and create a national abortion ban. The stakes of this election remain clear: the backwards agenda of Project 2025 or President Kamala Harris, who will choose our rights and freedoms every time.”
 
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