[[link removed]] Ms. Memo: This Week in Women's Rights
February 14, 2024
From the ongoing fight for abortion rights and access, to elections, to the drive for the Equal Rights Amendment, there are a multitude of battles to keep up with. In this weekly roundup, find the absolute need-to-know news for feminists.
Project 2025: The Right’s Dystopian Plan to Dismantle Civil Rights and What It Means for Women [[link removed]]
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Kevin Roberts, president of The Heritage Foundation, during a news conference on government funding with the House Freedom Caucus outside the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2023. (Tom Williams / CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
BY CARRIE N. BAKER | Wealthy right-wing think tank The Heritage Foundation has published a detailed plan for the next Republican president to use the executive branch of the federal government to attack the rights of women, LGBTQ people and the BIPOC community, by eliminating the agencies and offices responsible for enforcing civil rights laws and placing trained right-wing ideologues in staff positions throughout the federal government.
Called the 2025 Presidential Transition Project—or “Project 2025,” for short—the plan has “four pillars”:
1.
an
887-page
policy
agenda,
2.
a
presidential
personnel
database
of
vetted
conservatives,
3.
a
Presidential
Administration
Academy
to
train
these
people
to
achieve
the
Project
2025
policy
agenda,
and
4.
a
180-day
playbook,
which
is
what
they
hope
to
achieve
in
the
first
180
days
if
Trump
takes
office
in
January
2025.

To develop this plan, the Heritage Foundation organized a broad coalition of over 90 conservative organizations—a who’s-who of groups that have led attacks on reproductive rights and bodily autonomy, gender studies, the Equal Rights Amendment and #MeToo initiatives.
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Who Runs the World? Women Mayors. [[link removed]] Alliance Defending Freedom Seeks to Persuade Arizona Supreme Court That Not All Life-Saving Abortions Are Emergencies [[link removed]]
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The Three Genders, Per One GOP Super PAC: ‘Male,’ ‘Working Woman’ and ‘Homemaker’ [[link removed]] Abortion Provider Vows to Fight On After Extremist Sentenced to Five Years for Violent Clinic Attack [[link removed]]
What we're reading
Because it's hard to keep up with everything going on in the world right now. Here's what we're reading this week:
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"California
Universities
Are
Required
To
Offer
Students
Abortion
Pills.
A
Lot
Just
Don't
Mention
It”
—
LAist
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"Here’s
where
child
care
is
the
most
expensive:
study”
—
The
Hill
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