SENATE REPUBLICANS BLOCK IVF BILL, ADVANCE TRUMP’S PROJECT 2025 ATTACKS ON REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
SEPTEMBER 17, 2024
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Tracy Adair, [email protected]
WASHINGTON, D.C.– Last week, Donald Trump stood on the debate stage and tried to downplay his connection to Project 2025—a far-right, extremist blueprint for a second Trump administration. Trump may be scrambling to distance himself from this deeply unpopular agenda, but his allies in the U.S. Senate are already working to make his vision a reality, starting by blocking legislation that would guarantee access to in vitro fertilization (IVF) nationwide.
In response to these calculated attacks on Americans reproductive freedoms, Stand Up America Executive Director Christina Harvey issued the following statement:
“Donald Trump can try to walk away from Project 2025, but his fingerprints are all over it. At least 140 former Trump administration and campaign officials helped craft this far-right agenda. Trump’s public disavowal is nothing more than an attempt to deceive voters while his allies in Congress push the very policies he’s pretending to distance himself from.
“Project 2025 isn’t a distant, abstract threat—it’s a real, extremist agenda that MAGA Republicans are eager to implement. By blocking access to IVF and trying to control how families grow, MAGA Republicans in the Senate are proving just how far they’re willing to go to impose Trump’s out-of-touch, authoritarian vision. As more Americans learn about the policies in Project 2025, the stakes at the ballot box this November will become even clearer.”
Project 2025 curtails reproductive freedoms in various ways: from restricting birth control and banning abortion and limiting IVF to allowing the government to monitor Americans’ pregnancies to potentially prosecute them if they miscarry. Most Americans object to these policies, with four in five opposing the government monitoring people’s pregnancies.
This November, Americans will be presented with a clear choice between a candidate who will protect our rights and freedoms and one who wants to take them away. That’s why Stand Up America, and our nearly 2 million members, are mobilizing to protect our democracy and our fundamental freedoms by electing Kamala Harris as the next President of the United States.
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