The recent Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization has sent shockwaves through the nation, jeopardizing access to safe and legal abortion for millions of women. However, the implications of this ruling extend far beyond abortion rights, with Project 2025 acting as a roadmap for further restricting women's healthcare access. Here's how Project 2025 would affect medically vulnerable, disproportionately impacting women. Planned Parenthood Under Fire: Project 2025 proposes defunding Planned Parenthood, a crucial safety net for millions. Planned Parenthood provides a wide range of essential services, including contraception, cancer screenings, STI testing and treatment, and prenatal care. Defunding it would leave a gaping hole in healthcare access, particularly for low-income women and those living in rural areas. Consequences for Maternal Health: The lack of access to Planned Parenthood services would have dire consequences for maternal

  What would life in America be like during a presidential administration run by the guidelines of Project 2025? The Columbus Dispatch said, “Project 2025 is a plan created by The Heritage Foundation to usher in the country's next conservative president, but whether or not that includes Trump is uncertain.” (Perry, 2024). Project 2025, spearheaded by the Heritage Foundation, outlines a comprehensive set of guidelines and policy proposals for a possible upcoming conservative presidential administration. If implemented, life in America under these guidelines would experience significant shifts in several key areas, including government structure, economic policy, social programs, and regulatory approaches. It would personally impact the lives of several million Americans! Government Structure and Power Dynamics Executive Power and Bureaucracy: Project 2025 emphasizes a strong executive branch, advocating for the consolidation of executive power under the President. This a

            Facebook. Damned Facebook. Mouse over to the notification “Bell”. “Trump rallies in Pittsburg ongoing.” Click on a live video before my eyes. A crowd of Secret Service personnel is ushering Trump away Trump appears to be almost combative with the agents as he is led into the open, a waiting SUV. Other Secret Service agents surround the vehicle with pistols drawn and ready. Eventually, the agents get in and drive away. What’s happening? Slowly, the story and unseen footage emerge of not just a single shot wounding Trump, but at least two other victims struck down during the assault. Finally, the identity of the shooter emerges: twenty-year-old, Thomas Michael Crooks of Bethel Parks, PA. a registered Republican voter. The Secret Service, bless their hearts, intervened shooting him dead before any more damage could have been done. I saw the footage, read the online comments just like almost everybody else, and after coming to myself with the admission that this is

  Project 2025, led by the Heritage Foundation and supported by over 100 conservative organizations, aims to implement a comprehensive right-wing agenda through the executive branch, bypassing the need for new legislation. This project is designed to support a future conservative administration (read, Donald Trump), in enacting rapid and significant policy changes. Before we get too far along into this examination, we need to make one thing clear about this 944 page downloadable PDF file from the Heritage Foundation: despite Trump’s claims to the contrary, his ties to the mandate are close and unmistakable. (Hillyard & Marguez, 2024.). The document outlines a planned takeover of the Federal Government from the executive office downward.   For lower and middle-class Americans, the implications of Project 2025 are substantial and potentially harmful. The proposed changes include: 1. Economic Impact: Project 2025 plans to cut overtime protections for millions of workers, which

  I am writing this one on the fly. All findings and statements are backed up with a list of references at the end of this piece. At the beginning of July, I found out like the rest of the nation, and later, the rest of the world of course, that for now, at least, we no longer live in a representative democracy. Oh sure, we still elect many of our leaders. Republican Gerrymandering notwithstanding. We can hear about candidates over our usual news outlets, and of course, the Internet. Sometimes we can vote for them, but are those candidates bound to follow the same laws we are? Forget it! Remember the politician who bragged about being able to shoot someone on a busy city street and not lose any votes over it? Keep your eyes on the news cycle. We are living in his world now. On July 1, 2024, the Supreme Court ruled for the first time that former presidents have broad immunity from prosecution. According to the Associated Press, the ruling reflected a “muscular” view of presidentia