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What You Need to Know About Project 2025’s Potential Global Impact on SRHR & 3 Actions You Can Take

31st October 2024

Earlier this year, SheDecides Champion Malayah Harper authored a new report entitled: “Global Impacts of Project 2025”. The report, supported by RFSU, examines how the next Republican administration may impact U.S. foreign and development policy on SRHR and gender equality.

In this blog, Malayah outlines the aims and plans of Project 2025 and suggests 3 things that SheDecides Champions and SRHR allies can do should Trump win the U.S. election next month.

Since its launch last year, Project 2025 (an American, far-right conservative and Christian nationalist road map for a future conservative President) has been a persistent presence in the U.S. election. This extreme proposal to dismantle democracy and centralise power in the hands of the President is continually referenced as a signpost of what Trump might do with a second term in office.

However, while the potential domestic impacts of Project 2025 have come under scrutiny, far less attention has been paid to its global repercussions.

UNDERSTANDING PROJECT 2025

I'll be honest, when I first waded through the 900-page policy proposal, I couldn’t properly fathom what I was reading. Its language is in parts infantile (referring effortlessly to 'woke cultural warriors') and also very very hateful - talking about ‘transgender extremists’ and ‘transgender ideology as pornography’. The prose is so over the top that at times it feels like a badly written spoof.

But this is no joke. In fact, should Donald Trump win on November 5th, the money and the influence behind Project 2025 - and related plans by groups such as America First Policy Initiative - could make the dream of the U.S. Christian nationalists to significantly curtail access to abortion, and other rights worldwide, a reality.

The Project, is a product of The Heritage Foundation, a well-funded, far-right American think tank, with a 54-member advisory board, 520 contributing authors and very close ties to Donald Trump.