Editor, Gazette-Journal:
This note—on the GOP’s appallingly violent and deludedly male-supremacist plan to destroy every woman’s sacred right to reproductive self-determination AND health care privacy—from the American Civil Liberties Union recently arrived in my email inbox. I approve it.

[The GOP/billionaires’] “Project 2025” is a roadmap for trampling on our most fundamental rights and freedoms, and if we wait until after Election Day to address these disastrous policies, it will be too late. That’s why we are doing everything we can to fight it now

We have a roadmap of our own for how we plan to defend our rights and freedoms from the extreme policies outlined in Project 2025—and your support is what will equip us to carry it out:

Project 2025 Proposal [P2P]

The ACLU’s Response [ACLU]

• P2P: Mass voter roll purges; federal law enforcement intimidation at the polls.
• ACLU: Work with Congress to pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act and key provisions of the Freedom to Vote Act to restore and strengthen protections against voter suppression—while continuing to show up for fair maps and voting rights in court.
• P2P: Drastically restrict legal immigration; carry out mass deportations; obliterate asylum and humanitarian protections.
• ACLU: Advocate for measures to rein in the ICE detention machine, while building state protections against federal use of state resources for an anti-immigration agenda.
• P2P: Take abortion medication off the shelves; misuse a law from the 1800s to prosecute abortion providers nationwide.
• ACLU: Fight for a new federal law to ensure access to abortion for everyone, no matter where they live.
  Continue winning fights for birth control, family planning services, and abortion access in court and in state legislatures.
• P2P: Ban lifesaving health care for transgender people; expel trans people from the military; wipe away federal prohibitions on discrimination against LGBTQ people.
• ACLU: Push Congress to use the appropriations process to block federal anti-trans discrimination—while working in states and school boards to protect LGBTQ students with inclusive policies regardless of government discrimination.
  • Steve Greaves
    Gloucester, Va.