Meng Releases Fact Sheet Detailing Project 2025’s Attacks on International Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights

Washington, D.C. - U.S. Rep. Grace Meng (NY-06), Chair of the Congressional Pro-Choice Caucus International Women's Rights Taskforce and a member of the Stop Project 2025 Taskforce, today unveiled a fact sheet she compiled detailing the disastrous impact that Project 2025 would have on sexual and reproductive health and rights around the world.

Beginning with the Supreme Court's 2022 Dobbs decision that overturned Roe v. Wade, Republicans' attacks on reproductive health and rights in the United States continue to put millions of lives at risk. Project 2025 details a plan to use American diplomatic ties and economic might to export these attacks abroad, diminishing sexual and reproductive health and rights all across the globe.

"The Dobbs decision rolled back reproductive rights for millions of Americans," said Congresswoman Meng. "However, the harmful impacts of this landmark case aren't just national - they're global. Project 2025 is a draconian plan that will build on the harmful Dobbs decision and eliminate access to sexual and reproductive health and rights for millions of people throughout the world, even when lives are at risk. We cannot continue to go backwards. Every American must be aware of the detrimental impact that the extreme restrictions included in this plan will have, now and long into the future."

"Everyone deserves access to quality health care and the power to make decisions about their own bodies, lives, and futures - no matter who they are or where they live," said Alexis McGill Johnson, President and CEO of Planned Parenthood Action Fund. "Project 2025's proposals to attack sexual and reproductive health care around the globe are an affront to basic human rights, and we must reject these anti-freedom policies so all people can control their own destinies, free of government interference. Thank you to Representative Meng and the Pro-Choice Caucus for uplifting the dangers of Project 2025's proposals for communities around the world."

"Project 2025's proposals are draconian and, despite their claims of promoting healthy families, would endanger the lives of millions," saidNabeeha Kazi Hutchins, President and CEO of PAI. "Imposing U.S. restrictions on foreign aid that do not align with local laws or customs will leave communities around the world without access to healthcare, including maternal and infant care. The decision if, when and how to have children should not be between the U.S. government and individuals in other countries, but between individuals and their trusted healthcare providers. PAI will continue to advocate for human rights, including the choice to determine our future."

On day one of another Trump presidency, Project 2025 would provide a detailed plan to:

• Erase sexual and reproductive health and rights from federal regulations and laws
• Use U.S. diplomacy and foreign aid to lobby against abortion and access to other reproductive health services
• Eliminate staff and programming dedicated to gender equality and women's economic empowerment
• Ban funding to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), which provides lifesaving care to mothers and children and supports access to contraception worldwide
• Defund and target nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) that provide lifesaving access to reproductive health care
• Endanger the lives of those receiving health care who may face cultural or social stigma for their gender, sexual identity, or medical condition

Project 2025is a blueprint for Trump and the GOP to gut checks and balances so that they can take over the government and impose their extreme agenda at home and abroad. This 920-page manifesto declares that the Dobbs decision was "just the beginning". It promises to slash reproductive freedom in every state and roll back women's rights, in addition to eliminating access to sexual and reproductive health and rights for women and families across the globe.

The so-called "Mandate for Leadership" aims to implement a number of policies that not only attack choice, but also the very foundations of health care and U.S. diplomacy. These include reinstituting the expanded Trump-era Global Gag Rule and apply this harmful policy to all foreign assistance; pushing the harmful and misguided Geneva Consensus Declaration, which reduces access to all forms of reproductive care, rather than promoting the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) 30 Roadmap, which was developed with input from 179 governments; and eliminating funding and staff dedicated to advancing gender equality and sexual and reproductive health and rights across U.S. diplomacy and development, which harms and weakens the United States' international development goals.

The fact sheet can be viewed here.

As a member of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on State and Foreign Operations, Congresswoman Meng is a staunch advocate for increasing federal funding and expanding programs that support reproductive rights and access to health care across the globe. During the 2025 appropriations process, she led the effortto preserve funding for the UN Population Fund and oppose the inclusion of the Trump-era global gag rule in the FY2025 State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs bill, which also included cuts to critical investments in U.S. diplomacy and development, attacks women's rights, and cause our nation to retreat from its position on the world stage. Additionally, this year she led a resolution with Representatives Barbara Lee (D-CA) and Lois Frankel (D-FL) reaffirming the goals of the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in Cairo, Egypt, advancing comprehensive sexual and reproductive health and rights.

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