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Project 2025 calls for surveilling pregnancies – tracking miscarriage and abortion data nationwide for prosecution
What Project 2025 Calls for:
Policing Pregnancies: Project 2025 states that the “[the Department of Health and Human Services] should use every available tool, including the cutting of funds, to ensure that every state reports exactly how many abortions take place within its borders, at what gestational age of the child, for what reason, the mother’s state of residence, and by what method.” Page 455
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Elimination of States’ Rights: Project 2025’s proposed federal mandate directly conflicts with states’ strong protections for patient privacy. Under Project 2025, the federal government would try to force states to share private healthcare data that could be used to target patients needing an abortion procedure, including those suffering a miscarriage, or even to criminally punish out-of-state patients who come to the state for help.
Project 2025 Will Hurt Families
Allow States to Block Miscarriage Medication: Project 2025 calls for enforcing the now-dormant Comstock Act of 1873, which would allow state governments to ban life-saving miscarriage and emergency abortion medications without having to pass any new legislation. Without access to these medications, many women suffering miscarriages will be at risk of dying, leaving their families far too soon. Project 2025: page 459
Revoke FDA’s Ability to Approve Life-Saving Medications Nationwide: Project 2025 calls for revoking the FDA’s approval for miscarriage and abortion medications on the claim that “The FDA is statutorily charged with guaranteeing the safety and efficacy of drugs and therefore should withdraw this drug that is proven to be dangerous to women and by definition fatally unsafe for unborn children.” Project 2025: page 458
Adopt the Same Legal Standard of Life that Alabama’s Supreme Court Used to Outlaw IVF: A Project 2025 government would challenge our Supreme Court to designate fetuses as full people “from conception to natural death.” Project 2025: page 489. Today, states like Georgia demonstrate how extreme anti-choice laws can kill moms, states like Alabama are stopping families from having children with the help of IVF, and states like Idaho are seeing OBGYNs flee due to the possibility of the medical provider facing criminal prosecution for providing care.
Leveraging State Funding to Force Data Reporting: Project 2025 would force states to share patients’ private health data by restricting “Medicaid payments for family planning services” for any state that refuses to share pregnancy outcome data. Project 2025: Page 456
Project 2025 Is Already Here
Project 2025’s America would violate individuals’ privacy. But worst of all, it would endanger the lives of mothers and permanently scar hundreds of thousands of American families who’ve already faced the unthinkable.
