Congresswoman: ‘Conservatives Want to Ban the Word Abortion’
Democrat cites potential effect of right-wing ‘Project 2025’ on federal workforce
Republicans are looking even to ban the use of the word “abortion” by federal workers under the sprawling right-wing manifesto, Project 2025.
That’s according to a Democratic congresswoman from Massachusetts, who raised the issue Wednesday during a congressional hearing on the federal workforce.
Project 2025, also known as the Presidential Transition Project, is a huge collection of policy proposals to thoroughly reshape the U.S. federal government in the event of a Republican victory in the 2024 U.S. presidential election. Established in 2022 — and led by the right-wing think tank, Heritage Foundation — the project aims to recruit tens of thousands of right-wing believers to Washington DC, to replace existing federal civil servants—whom Republicans characterize as part of the “deep state” —and to further the objectives of the next Republican president.
“For many people, this is their first time hearing about it. And we must sound the alarm. Project 2025 is a far right manifesto. It is a 1,000-page bucket list of extremist policies that would uproot every government agency and disrupt the lives of every person who calls this country home,” said Rep Ayanna Pressley. “I won’t detail every aspect but I’ll share some highlights. The Department of Education would be eliminated. Cutting students off from civil rights protections and ending essential Title I funding for K-12 schools. The Department of Justice would go on a murdering spree. It would rush to use the death penalty and expand its use to even more people while circumventing due process protections.”
The word “abortion” is just one word — including “diversity,” “gender,” and others — that Project 2025 seeks to ban from the vocabularies of federal workers, according to Pressley.
“Project ’25 not only calls for national book bans in schools, but also creates a list of banned words for the federal government that would be deleted from, quote, every federal rule, agency regulation, contract grant and piece of legislation that exists, end quote,” she said. “On that note, abortion care would be inaccessible and illegal no matter where you live. Take it from them. On Page Six of its playbook Project 2025 states quote, ‘The Dobbs decision is just the beginning, end quote. People even in my district, the Massachusetts 7th, the leader on reproductive justice would be criminalized for pursuing essential health care.
“Now, we can have an entire hearing on how these policies would quite literally ruin and end lives, and I didn’t even touch upon proposals for housing, climate change, worker protections and more,” Pressley added. “If enacted Project 25 — 2025 — would destroy the federal government as we know it.”
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