DESPITE TRUMP’S DISCLAIMERS, HIS PROJECT 2025 WILL GUT ABORTION ACCESS FOR ALL AMERICANS
QUICK READ: Spooked by voters’ negative reactions to Trump’s Project 2025 reproductive rights agenda, Trump is desperately trying to appear moderate. We must not be fooled, however, because Project 2025 is relying on the Reconstruction-era Comstock Act to to effectively outlaw abortion nationwide without Congressional action. Congress must repeal it immediately.
CONTENTS:
BACKGROUND
As voters learn about Trump’s Project 2025, their alarm grows about its possible implementation. Voters correctly believe Trump wants abortions outlawed in all or most cases and fear Project 2025’s calls for a national abortion ban and the monitoring of pregnancies for possible prosecution after miscarriages.
Having failed to distance himself from Project 2025 and its attacks on reproductive freedom, he’s now desperately trying to appear moderate, despite repeatedly bragging about how, through his judicial appointments, he overturned Roe:
Waffling on supporting a Florida referendum expanding abortion access;
Promising to cover IVF expenses, although his platform supports fetal personhood;
Refusing to commit to vetoing a national abortion ban, contradicting Vance.
Such promises are meaningless because Project 2025 describes how, by executive order on Day 1, he can use the Reconstruction-era Comstock Act to halt medication abortion via telehealth and mail, effectively banning abortion everywhere without Congressional action [pp.455-62]. He could then instruct his Attorney General to prosecute the providers and distributors of medication abortion and abortion-related materials and even those who create and ship the materials commonly used in surgical abortions.
These policies’ consequences are devastating:
Women who’ve aborted, or even had miscarriages, can be prosecuted;
Without telehealth and mail medication abortion more women will die or needlessly suffer grave health consequences;
Fearing criminalization, providers will delay or deny care, and the subsequent dearth of
maternity-care professionals will further eradicate access to basic care for entire families and communities.
ACTION One: Call the Senate.
Script for Oregon Senators
SEN. MERKLEY: Portland office: 503-326-3386 | D.C. office: 202-224-3753
My name is [--] and I'm a constituent from [city], Oregon [zip code].
Between now and November you must work to repeal the Comstock Act (S.4619) and continue to remind voters that politicians have no place in our doctor’s offices and that whatever promises Trump and Vance are now making are their last ditch attempt to divert attention from the terrifying nature of Trump’s Project 2025’s assault on reproductive freedom—using the Comstock Act to ban abortion nationwide and to threaten jail time for doctors and others associated with the shipping of materials used in abortion care.
SEN. WYDEN:
Portland office: 503-326-7525 | D.C. office: 202-224-5244
My name is [–] and I’m a constituent from [city], Oregon [zip code].
Between now and November you must work to repeal the Comstock Act (S.4619) and continue to remind voters that politicians have no place in our doctor’s offices and that whatever promises Trump and Vance are now making are their last ditch attempt to divert attention from the terrifying nature of Trump’s Project 2025’s assault on reproductive freedom—using the Comstock Act to ban abortion nationwide and to threaten jail time for doctors and others associated with the shipping of materials used in abortion care.
Script for Republican Senators
D.C switchboard: 202-224-3121
My name is [–] and I’m a constituent from [city], [state], [zip code].
Most of your constituents believe that politicians have no place in our doctor's offices. For this reason, I demand that you vote to repeal the Comstock Act, a post-Reconstruction immorality statute that has no relevance in America today.
ACTION TWO: Call the House.
Script for Suzanne Bonamici (OR-01)
Oregon office: 503-469-6010 | DC office: 202-225-0855
My name is [–] and I’m a constituent from [city], Oregon [zip code].
Between now and November you must work to repeal the Comstock Act (HR.8796) and continue to remind voters that politicians have no place in our doctor’s offices’ and that whatever promises Trump and Vance are now making are their last ditch attempt to divert attention from the terrifying nature of Trump’s Project 2025’s assault on reproductive freedom—using the Comstock Act to ban abortion nationwide and to threaten jail time for doctors and others associated with the shipping of materials used in abortion care.
Script for Cliff Bentz (OR-02)
Medford office: 541-776-4646 | DC office: 202-225-6730
My name is [–] and I’m a constituent from [city], Oregon [zip code].
Most of your constituents believe that politicians have no place in our doctor's offices. For this reason, I demand that you vote to repeal the Comstock Act, a post-Reconstruction immorality statute that has no relevance in America today.
Script for Earl Blumenauer (OR-03)
Oregon office: 503-231-2300 | DC office: 202-225-4811
My name is [–] and I’m a constituent from [city], Oregon [zip code].
Between now and November you must work to repeal the Comstock Act (HR.8796) and continue to remind voters that politicians have no place in our doctor’s offices’ and that whatever promises Trump and Vance are now making are their last ditch attempt to divert attention from the terrifying nature of Trump’s Project 2025’s assault on reproductive freedom—using the Comstock Act to ban abortion nationwide and to threaten jail time for doctors and others associated with the shipping of materials used in abortion care.
Script for Val Hoyle (OR-04)
Eugene office: 541-465-6732 | DC office: 202-225-6416
My name is [–] and I’m a constituent from [city], Oregon [zip code].
Between now and November you must work to repeal the Comstock Act (HR.8796) and continue to remind voters that politicians have no place in our doctor’s offices’ and that whatever promises Trump and Vance are now making are their last ditch attempt to divert attention from the terrifying nature of Trump’s Project 2025’s assault on reproductive freedom—using the Comstock Act to ban abortion nationwide and to threaten jail time for doctors and others associated with the shipping of materials used in abortion care.
SCRIPT FOR LORI CHAVEZ-DEREMER (OR-05)
Salem office: 503-588-9100 | DC office: 202-225-5711
My name is [–] and I’m a constituent from [city], Oregon [zip code].
Most of your constituents believe that politicians have no place in our doctor's offices. For this reason, I demand that you vote to repeal the Comstock Act, a post-Reconstruction immorality statute that has no relevance in America today.
Script for Andrea Salinas (OR-06)
Salem office: 503-385-0906 | DC office: 202-225-5643
My name is [–] and I’m a constituent from [city], Oregon [zip code].
Between now and November you must work to repeal the Comstock Act (S.4619/HR.8796) and continue to remind voters that politicians have no place in our doctor’s offices’ and that whatever promises Trump and Vance are now making are their last ditch attempt to divert attention from the terrifying nature of Trump’s Project 2025’s assault on reproductive freedom—using the Comstock Act to ban abortion nationwide and to threaten jail time for doctors and others associated with the shipping of materials used in abortion care.
ACTION THREE: Good Trouble.
Below are opportunities to fight for our democracy. As John Lewis said, go make some “good trouble.”
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Help educate your friends and family about the dangers of Project 2025, since “to know it, is to hate it” Check out these resources:
FURTHER READING
Every Awful Thing Trump Has Promised to Do in a Second Term
Project 2025 Is an Unmitigated Polling Disaster for Trump and Republicans
The 19th Explains: What is the Comstock Act?
Project 2025’s Distortion of a Reconstruction-Era Law Could enact a National Abortion Ban
JD Vance and Project 3025 Want to Use This 19th Century Law To Ban Abortion—Without Congress
What is Project 2025 and Why is it so Dangerous? (Harris/Walz Campaign)
