Donald Trumpā€™s running mate promoted a radical anti-abortion report from the same conservative think-tank behind Project 2025.

The controversial Project 2025 report has been otherwise disavowed by the Republican campaign and Trump personally after its sweeping proposals for reforms should the GOP secure victory in the November polls came to the publicā€™s attention.

Back in 2017, when J.D. Vance was only just getting into politics, the New York Times reports the Ohio senator ā€œchampionedā€ a collection of 29 essays compiled by the Heritage Foundation, the conservative organization behind the highly controversial Project 2025 initiative.

Described as a ā€œwish listā€ of changes to be enacted by the next conservative U.S. president, Project 2025 contains a number of extreme policies, ranging from massive curtailment of reproductive rights and bans on ā€˜woke propagandaā€™ in schools to placing the entirety of the federal bureaucracy under direct presidential control.

Though the Trump campaign has denied any ties to the initiative, with the Republican candidate himself saying ā€œI have no idea who is behind it,ā€ reports have since revealed how at least 140 former Trump employees were involved in drafting the 900-page document.

Much of Project 2025ā€™s vision for a second Trump presidency is keenly reflected in the 2017 collection of essays previously endorsed by Vance. These included an article suggesting that ideally, abortion would eventually become ā€œunthinkableā€ in the U.S. amid growing restrictions on access to the procedure, as well as a piece slamming fertility treatments for ā€œluringā€ women into thinking it was acceptable to have children later in lifeā€”a sentiment that particularly resonates with Vanceā€™s much-derided recent characterization of Democrat supporters as ā€œchildless cat ladies.ā€

The collection is even prefaced with an introduction from Vance himself, in which he described it as an ā€œadmirableā€ volume, representing ā€œan important effort in advancing [a] conversationā€ about ā€œour countryā€™s most difficult and intractable problems.ā€

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    2 months ago

    ā€œArchitectsā€ sounds so much more professional than ā€œplotters.ā€