The Fenway Institute of Fenway Health yesterday released a policy brief outlining the dangers to equality and public health posed by the policies in the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 Presidential Transition Project, and urging Americans to make sure they understand the potential impact to health care quality, equity, and access if the policies are implemented.
“Project 2025 articulates a dystopian agenda that would radically weaken the nation’s public health infrastructure, further restrict access to reproductive health care, and criminalize efforts to support LGBTQIA+ youth,” said Sean Cahill, Fenway Institute director of health policy research and coauthor of the brief. “It is critical that Americans understand the threats posed to all people living in the United States by Project 2025. The stakes are incredibly high.”
The brief, titled “Project 2025’s threat to LGBTQIA+ equality, safety, and health, racial and gender equity, and sexual and reproductive health,” documents the anti-LGBTQIA+ and racial equity biases of Project 2025’s architects, many of whom served in former President Donald Trump’s first administration. It also explains the ways in which the proposals affecting the Department of Health and Human Services and specific agencies such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention would harm people who are LGBTQIA+, BIPOC, newly arrived to the country, living in poverty, living with disabilities, or otherwise disadvantaged or marginalized.
— from a Fenway Health press release
Click here to access the brief.
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