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This Election We Have a Choice

Move forward and elect reproductive rights champions Kamala Harris and Tim Walz — or move backward with Donald Trump and J.D. Vance.

Trump has tried to distance himself from Project 2025, and his party can try to downplay their plans to ban abortion nationwide. But they can't run from what they’ve already done. We have the receipts.

The 2024 election is our time to decide our futures — not out-of-touch politicians. Join us.

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Timeline of Trump’s Attacks on Our Rights

At every turn during Trump’s four years in office, he and his allies came after sexual and reproductive health care — and that was before the Supreme Court fulfilled his promise to overturn Roe v. Wade, allowing states to ban abortion. Trump called the results of that horrific ruling “a beautiful thing.” 

Donald Trump’s administration worked to take away health care access and information from millions in the U.S. and across the globe; stacked the federal courts and agencies with anti-abortion rights judges and activists; and repealed longstanding federal rules around Medicaid and birth control. He even called for a national abortion ban and tried to “defund” Planned Parenthood.  

Believe what he did then, not what he says now. Trump and his allies came for our reproductive rights, and they’ll do it again.

First Year In Office

2017: Trump reinstates the Global Gag Rule 

Within his first few days in office, the Trump administration reinstates the global gag rule on abortion that blocked federal funding to any international organization that provided abortion-related services or did abortion-related advocacy work. Trump went even further to expand the gag rule to include not just family planning organizations but all global health assistance organizations that receive U.S. funding. This move jeopardized health care outcomes worldwide including maternal mortality and access to HIV prevention services.

Trump Stacks the Courts

Trump begins stacking the federal courts with anti-abortion rights judges. During his four years, Trump appointed more than 200 federal judges and three Supreme Court justices who, time and again, have failed to protect abortion rights.

Trump fills his cabinet with abortion rights opponents

Trump begins filling his cabinet and agencies with appointees staunchly opposed to abortion rights, including Jeff Sessions and the Heritage Foundation’s Roger Severino.

Trump targets Planned Parenthood

In May 2017, Donald Trump became the first president to single out Planned Parenthood and call for its “defunding.” Throughout the first six months of 2017, Trump and Congress repeatedly tried to push this “defund” effort through budget reconciliation.

 Anti-abortion language added to HHS strategic plans

In September 2017, the Trump administration released a draft HHS Strategic Plan, which stated that life begins at conception, made several mentions of “unborn children,” and lacked any reference to contraception, abortion, or LGBTQ+ health. The plan was further proof of the administration’s intention to undermine reproductive and sexual health.

Trump attacks the Affordable Care Act

In October 2017 the Trump administration took steps to reverse the Affordable Care Act rule on birth control, exempting nearly all employers and insurers from covering contraceptives if they object “based on its sincerely held religious beliefs,” or have other “moral convictions” against covering such care.

Second Year In Office

2018: Trump allows state funding attacks

In January 2018, Trump allowed states to exclude abortion providers like Planned Parenthood health centers from Medicaid programs, by rescinding Obama-era protections and undermining the long-standing federal freedom of choice provision.

Federal agencies censor health care

From March to July 2018, under the direction of the Trump administration, federal agencies like the State department and HHS begin removing information related to women’s sexual and reproductive health care, sex discrimination, and LGBTQ+ people from websites and reports.

 

Trump supports a national abortion ban

In May 2018, at the anti-abortion organization SBA Pro-Life America’s annual gala, Trump announces that he supports a 20-week national abortion ban.

Third Year In Office

Trump targets Planned Parenthood — again.

By February 2019, the Trump administration once again took aim at Planned Parenthood. This time, by issuing a rule that made it illegal for health care providers in the Title X federal family planning program — the only dedicated federal grant program for reproductive health — to refer patients for abortion. The rule also imposed additional requirements aimed at making it impossible for providers like Planned Parenthood health centers to participate in the Title X program.

Discrimination in health care is allowed

In May 2019, the Trump administration released a proposed rule to take away key non-discrimination protections in the Affordable Care Act. This proposal sought to undermine health care access and coverage for the LGBTQ+ community, particularly transgender people, and removed explicit non-discrimination protections for people based on a termination of pregnancy. The rule was finalized the following year.

 

Abortion coverage is blocked

In December 2019, the Trump administration finalized a rule designed to make it harder for insurers to elect to cover abortion coverage and to further stigmatize sexual and reproductive health services.

Final Year In Office

Pandemic rollbacks

Trump’s Department of Justice asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reinstate a rule mandating that abortion patients visit health care providers in person for medication abortions — a medically unnecessary requirement that lower courts had already blocked due to the pandemic.

This was just the beginning. It will only get worse in a second Trump administration ...

Ending access to abortion and sexual and reproductive health care nationwide is their ultimate goal, as laid out by former Trump administration officials and allies in Project 2025. 

Banning abortion is a key part of the first “promise” in the text’s foreword and “abortion” is mentioned a whopping 199 times throughout Project 2025’s 900 pages.

Abortion opponents will not stop until they have complete control and power over our bodies and our futures — including our freedom to decide if, when, and how to start a family. There’s no doubt that Donald Trump, J.D. Vance and their cronies will work to implement Project 2025 on day one using every lever they can — even without Congress — to eliminate our rights. 

The contrast between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris could not be clearer. While Donald Trump created our country’s abortion access crisis, Vice President Harris has been leading the effort to defend and protect abortion rights. Planned Parenthood Votes will do everything in our power to keep Donald Trump from the White House and ensure Kamala Harris wins in November.

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