Project 2025: The 2025 Presidential Transition Project: on Families & Children
Donald Trump:
Religious exemptions, including contraception, in ObamaCare
[The next president should] restore Trump religious and moral exemptions to the contraceptive mandate. HHS [the health & Human Services cabinet department] should rescind, if finalized, the regulation titled "Coverage of Certain Preventive Services
Under the Affordable Care Act," proposed jointly by HHS, Treasury, and Labor. This rule proposes to amend Trump-era final rules regarding religious and moral exemptions and accommodations for coverage of certain preventive services under the ACA.
Preventive services include contraception, and it appears the proposed rule would change the existing regulations for religious and moral exemptions to the ACA's contraception mandate.
There is no need for further rulemaking that curtails existing exemptions and accommodations.
Source: Project 2025, by the Heritage Foundation, p.483-4
Apr 1, 2023
Heritage Foundation:
Eliminate the woke ideology Gender Policy Council
The President should immediately revoke Executive Order 14020 (signed by President Biden in 2021) and every policy, including subregulatory guidance documents, produced on behalf of or related to
the establishment or promotion of the Gender Policy Council and its subsidiary issues. Abolishing the Gender Policy Council would eliminate central promotion of abortion ("health services"); comprehensive sexuality education ("education"); and the
new woke gender ideology, which has as a principal tenet "gender affirming care" and "sex-change" surgeries on minors. In addition to eliminating the council, developing new structures
and positions will have the dual effect of demonstrating that promoting life and strengthening the family is a priority while also facilitating more seamless coordination and consistency across the U.S. government.
Source: Project 2025, by the Heritage Foundation, p.62
Apr 1, 2023
Heritage Foundation:
Married mother, father, & children are nation's foundation
(p.451): Families comprised of a married mother, father, and their children are the foundation of a well-ordered nation and healthy society. Unfortunately, family policies and programs under Pres.Biden's HHS [Department of Health & Human Services] are
fraught with agenda items focusing on "LGBTQ+ equity," subsidizing single-motherhood, disincentivizing work, & penalizing marriage. These policies should be repealed and replaced by policies that support the formation of stable, married, nuclear families.
(p.187): African nations are particularly (and reasonably) non-receptive to the US social policies such as abortion & pro-LGBT initiatives being imposed on them. The US should reject the promotion of divisive policies that hurt the deepening of shared
goals between the US and its African partners.
(p.488-9): [HHS should] investigate, expose, and remediate any instances in which HHS violated people's rights by colluding with abortion advocates and LGBT advocates to violate conscience-protection laws.
Source: Project 2025, by the Heritage Foundation, p. 451,187,488
Apr 1, 2023
Joe Biden:
Gender Policy Council: promote gender-affirming care
The President should immediately revoke Executive Order 14020 (signed by President Biden in 2021) and every policy, including subregulatory guidance documents, produced on behalf of or related to
the establishment or promotion of the Gender Policy Council and its subsidiary issues. Abolishing the Gender Policy Council would eliminate central promotion of abortion ("health services"); comprehensive sexuality education ("education"); and the
new woke gender ideology, which has as a principal tenet "gender affirming care" and "sex-change" surgeries on minors. In addition to eliminating the council, developing new structures
and positions will have the dual effect of demonstrating that promoting life and strengthening the family is a priority while also facilitating more seamless coordination and consistency across the U.S. government.
Source: Project 2025, by the Heritage Foundation, p.62
Apr 1, 2023
Heritage Foundation:
Maternal and infant mortality is a global tragedy
The continued high rate of maternal and infant mortality is a persistent global tragedy. Contrary to current publicity, this problem is not solved by abortion. Families genuinely cherish children. The next [administration] must focus attention on women
and children's health (including unborn children) as well as health risks across life spans, including childhood infections, cervical cancer, adolescent risks, and family stability, by utilizing a coordinated approach. The Bureau should implement
a "Request for Application for Resilient Families" that harvests collaborative funds from siloed programs and makes individuals and the family, not diseases or conditions, the true focus of intervention.HHS also pushes abortion as a form of "health
care," skirting and sometimes blatantly defying the Hyde Amendment in the process. The next secretary should replace [Biden administration] policies with those encouraging marriage, work, motherhood, fatherhood, and nuclear families.
Source: Project 2025, by the Heritage Foundation, p.265&284
Apr 1, 2023
Heritage Foundation:
Outlaw pornography, and imprison people who produce it
Pornography, manifested today in the omnipresent propagation of transgender ideology and sexualization of children, for instance, is not a political Gordian knot inextricably binding up disparate claims about free speech, property rights,
sexual liberation, and child welfare. It has no claim to First Amendment protection. Its purveyors are child predators and misogynistic exploiters of women.
Their product is as addictive as any illicit drug and as psychologically destructive as any crime.Pornography should be outlawed. The people who produce and distribute it should be imprisoned. Educators and public librarians
who purvey it should be classed as registered sex offenders. And telecommunications and technology firms that facilitate its spread should be shuttered.
Source: Project 2025, by the Heritage Foundation, p. 5
Apr 1, 2023
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