Project 2026 Declares Open War on Women's Rights

(And the MISOGYNIST, PATRIARCHAL, CHRISTOFASCIST, THEOCRATIC, WAR ON WOMEN continues apace)


Project 2026 Declares Open War on Women’s Rights
PUBLISHED 12/13/2025 by Kathy Spillar

Project 2026 is not destiny. It is a warning—and one we must answer with the full force of a movement that has never accepted a future written for us by someone else.


Russ Vought, director of the Office of Management and Budget, speaks at the National Conservative Convention in Washington D.C., Sept. 3, 2025. Vought is a key author of Project 2025’s 900‑page governing guide. (Dominic Gwinn / Middle East Images via AFP)

When the Heritage Foundation released its new policy blueprint for 2026 this week—an extension of the now-infamous Project 2025—it did so with the calm confidence of an institution convinced no one will stop it. The document is shorter than last year’s 900-page “Mandate for Leadership,” but no less dangerous. It is, in fact, more candid. Project 2026 lays out a government redesigned to control women’s bodies, erase LGBTQ+ lives, dismantle civil rights protections and roll back decades of hard-won progress. Wrapped in the language of “family,” “sovereignty” and “restoring America,” it is a direct attempt to impose a narrow, rigid ideology on an entire nation. Make no mistake: This is a plan for forced motherhood, government-policed gender and the end of women’s equality as we know it.


A National Strategy to Control Women’s Bodies

Project 2026 picks up where Project 2025 left off: banning abortion pills, weaponizing the 150-year-old Comstock Act to criminalize medication by mail, embedding fetal personhood across federal agencies, and stripping every federal safeguard protecting reproductive freedom. As the Women’s March’s analysis notes bluntly, this blueprint is “designed to rebuild a country where women, queer people, trans people, and anyone outside their ‘ideal family’ have fewer rights.” Heritage puts this in softer words—saying that “every child conceived deserves to be born to a married mother and father” and pledging to reduce “the supply and demand for abortion at all stages.” But we know exactly what this means. A country where a woman’s future is no longer her own.


Eliminating the Department of Education—and Women’s Rights With It

The plan also endorses dismantling the U.S. Department of Education entirely. Heritage has pledged to “reclaim higher education from the radical Left,” a phrase that has become a catch-all for eliminating protections for survivors of sexual assault, Title IX enforcement, LGBTQ+ inclusion and academic freedom itself. Who benefits when civil rights oversight disappears? Not girls. Not young women on campus. Not any student whose gender, sexuality, race or disability puts them at risk of discrimination. This is not “parental rights.” It is state-engineered ignorance.




A polling station in Smyrna, Ga., on Election Day, Nov. 5, 2024. (Yasuyoshi Chiba / AFP via Getty Images)

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The United States has faced coordinated backlash against women’s rights before—and every time, women have organized, resisted and reshaped the nation. The women who fought for suffrage did not stop when they were dismissed as unreasonable. The women who pushed Title IX into law did not stop when they were told girls didn’t need equal opportunities. The women who built the modern reproductive rights movement did not stop when the courts narrowed their freedoms. And we will not stop now. Project 2026 is not destiny. It is a warning—and one we must answer with the full force of a movement that has never accepted a future written for us by someone else.The coming year will test our resolve. But we have marched before. We have organized before. We have voted in record numbers before. And we will do it again. Because women’s rights are not a “radical ideology.” They are the foundation of a free and democratic society. And we intend to keep it that way.

https://msmagazine.com/2025/12/13/project-2026-heritage-foundation-womens-rights-childcare-education-department-abortion/