Project 2025: Outlaw Chemical Abortion Drugs
And any other contraception Fascist Republicans consider "abortifacients" (Scroll to the end to listen)
In today’s newsletter, I hope to take readers beyond the notion that Christian Nationalist Republicans will stop at banning mifepristone, one of two pills that chemically induce an abortion. I’m not being hyperbolic to strongly assert that Christo-fascist Republicans will ban ALL contraception.
Allow me to make my case.
Regarding mifepristone:
Reverse its approval of chemical abortion drugs because the politicized approval process was illegal from the start. The FDA failed to abide by its legal obligations to protect the health, safety, and welfare of girls and women. It never studied the safety of the drugs under the labeled conditions of use, ignored the potential impacts of the hormone-blocking regimen on the developing bodies of adolescent girls, disregarded the substantial evidence that chemical abortion drugs cause more complications than surgical abortions, and eliminated necessary safeguards for pregnant girls and women who undergo this dangerous drug regimen. Furthermore, at no point in the past two decades has the FDA ever acknowledged or addressed federal laws that prohibit the distribution of abortion drugs by postal mail; to the contrary, the FDA has permitted and actively encouraged such activity.
Project 2025, page 458
Pay attention to the highlighted language. Republicans have made no secret of their goal to use the Comstock Act to outlaw the shipment of chemical abortion pills and abortion supplies. Both Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito name-checked Comstock during oral arguments in the recent mifepristone case.
Project 2025’s use of the term “abortion drugs” is no accident. Their anti-abortion base has clearly defined what “abortion drugs” are to them. Their definition goes far beyond mifepristone. Every American must grasp what Christian Nationalists deem to be “abortion drugs.”
Using their own language, let’s follow the path they set out.
Eliminate the week-after-pill from the contraceptive mandate as a potential abortifacient. One of the emergency contraceptives covered under the HRSA preventive services guidelines is Ella (ulipristal acetate). Like its close cousin, the abortion pill mifepristone, Ella is a progesterone blocker and can prevent a recently fertilized embryo from implanting in a woman’s uterus. HRSA should eliminate this potential abortifacient from the contraceptive mandate.
Project 2025, page 485
This is an example of how Christian Nationalist Republicans will deploy fetal personhood to ban any contraceptive that creates a “harsh uterine environment” for implantation of a fertilized embryo.
Let’s take a look at what that language means to the far-right forced-birth movement.
Here is language from Human Life International’s website (not linking to them), with everything they deem to be an “abortifacient.” When they use the word “abortifacient,” readers should replace it with the Project 2025 words “abortion drugs,” because they mean the same thing.
There are two distinct kinds of abortifacients. The first includes drugs and devices that continually maintain a certain level of hormones in the woman’s body, mimicking pregnancy. While these can also have a genuine contraceptive effect, each also has the potential to alter the lining of the uterus (endometrium) to prevent the implantation of a tiny human being.
Methods that prevent implantation include:
Oral contraceptives such as the birth control pill
Injectables such as Depo-Provera
Implants such as Norplant, Jadelle, Implanon, and Nexplanon
The second type of abortifacient directly kills an existing preborn child. Also referred to as “medical abortion,” these include:
RU-486 (the “abortion pill”)
“Emergency contraception”: These abortifacients have many forms and are sometimes called “morning-after pills.” They consist of high doses of the artificial steroids used in oral contraceptives. The most popular brand is Plan B.
Republicans WILL define hormonal birth control as an abortifacient (“abortion drugs”) using the methodology outlined by Human Life International above. They WILL use the Comstock Act to ban the shipment of oral contraceptives by calling them “abortion drugs.” I’m not making a stretch for shock value. It is impossible to follow these breadcrumbs without arriving at this conclusion.
Republican refusal to enshrine the right to contraception into federal law is a direct indication of their intent to outlaw it. Even as they gaslight Americans with garbage statements like this:
“The Democrats are using their power to push an alarmist and false narrative that there is a problem accessing contraception,” said Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy, the top Republican on the Senate Health, Labor, Education and Pensions Committee.
Source: AP
Don’t be fooled by Republican chicanery. Use this newsletter to connect these dots for every person you know who can be pregnant. Christian Nationalist Republicans are telling us they will ban contraception. We would be wise to believe them and vote accordingly.
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So....what about the other drug that messes with 'God's Plan' for reproduction: Viagra! If they truly believe that infertility is part of God's plan, then surely ED is part of Her/His plan as well. Praying for an erection seems like it would be counterproductive, and since porn is off the table....
Superb info. Every man and women needs to read this. No one wants unplanned pregnancies, not even men.
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Not every ejaculation needs a last name!!
Taken directly from Students For Life website, a radical extremist anti-abortion and anti-birth control group. Below are the ONLY methods they want for all men & women:
Abortifacient (they want outlawed):
Oral contraceptives (birth control pills)
Intra-uterine devices (IUDs), both copper & hormonal
Hormonal patches
Hormonal shots
Hormonal implants
Hormonal vaginal rings
Plan B (emergency contraceptive) and off-brand equivalents
Non-Abortifacient (the only methods they support) :
Male & female condoms
Vaginal sponge
Spermicide
Cervical cap/shield
Diaphragm
Fertility awareness methods(natural family planning/green sex) like the FDA approved “Natural Cycles”. (AKA, rhythm method)
https://studentsforlife.org/