The Heritage Foundation Has a Radical New Project

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https://www.importantcontext.news/p/heritage-foundation-has-a-radical


Heady from their anticipated victory in Dobbs, the Heritage Foundation and its partners in the anti-abortion movement gathered in June 2022 to hail “Life After Roe.”

The symposium was filled with high-minded pledges to support, protect and stand up for women in a new post-Roe era in which women’s reproductive rights and health care would be greatly restricted. Though all of its 11 panelists were white, Roger Severino, a foundation vice president, summoned racial justice parallels, invoking Martin Luther King and likening Dobbs to Brown v. Board of Education, the 1954 decision striking down school segregation.

But Heritage president Kevin Roberts hinted at a broader project to come for his group and its powerful conservative allies—one that had little to do with gender or racial justice. He said Dobbs provided the conservative movement with an “opportunity to repair so many related issues,” among them “the crisis of right-ordered masculinity” and the “crisis of femininity, rightly understood.”

Elements of that campaign would be unveiled in its Project 2025 tract, which provided the Trump administration with a detailed playbook to attack all forms of reproductive care by weaponizing federal funding, most notably Medicaid; restricting the availability of treatment nationwide; spreading junk science and censoring evidence-based research; undermining patient privacy and safety; and criminalizing the exercise of individual rights.

This playbook, which the administration followed virtually to the letter, targeted the most vulnerable first: Young people, low-income earners who are disproportionately women of color; veterans, members of the military and their families. Health care providers of all types were targeted as well, the threat of funding losses looming so large that many over- and pre-complied with these unilateral and arbitrary edicts.

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[Solly Mack]

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