The Group Behind Project 2025 Has a New Target

The Heritage Foundations wants to control women’s lives, disguised as “saving the family”

The Heritage Foundation, the group behind Project 2025, has released a proposal titled Saving America by Saving the Family, where they argue that marriage in the U.S. requires a “whole-of-government” approach.

The proposal lays out a clear agenda: limit women’s access to education, restrict divorce, and attack birth control and IVF.

Targeting Education

The authors argue that feminism and expanded access to higher education are to blame for later marriage and fewer children.

Their solution? Dismantling policies and programs that help women afford higher education, including graduate loan programs like Grad PLUS.

No-fault Divorce

The proposal calls for what it labels “divorce culture reform.”

Translation: making divorce harder to access by ‘pushing back’ on no-fault divorce, which allows people to leave marriages without proving abuse or wrongdoing in court. No-fault divorce has been linked to lower rates of domestic violence and suicide among women, but the Heritage Foundation argues that divorce has become too easy and needs to be restricted through measures like covenant marriage.

Birth Control

The authors openly criticize contraception, framing birth control not as healthcare, but as a cultural failure that policymakers should move away from supporting.

Attacks On IVF

The authors suggest that IVF should be restricted or eliminated, arguing that “Greater IVF access might even contribute to fewer overall births as many younger women may overestimate IVF’s success rates and delay childbearing beyond their most fertile years, because the most common IVF use case is that of a woman having her first child later in life.”

“For years, many people dismissed Project 2025 as exaggerated or unreal. We are now watching it unfold in real time. This paper is the next chapter.” (Haley Lickstein, author of Hot Takes with Haley Lickstein Substack)

We’re only scratching the surface of this 138-page proposal. We haven’t even touched the homophobic language, the push for marriage boot camps, or the ways it goes after adoption.

But the most important thing to remember is this: these aren’t the ideas of some random think tank. As Project 2025 showed, the Heritage Foundation has real influence over the Trump administration. That’s why we need to take these plans seriously and make sure they never become reality.

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