Under Roger Severino’s vision for HHS, federal approval of one commonly used abortion drug, mifepristone, could be revisited and potentially withdrawn. It's only one of the planned changes.
From his perch in the Trump administration’s Department of Health and Human Services, Roger Severino made a controversial name for himself, working to shield health workers who declined to perform medical procedures includingleft office, Severino helped the conservative Heritage Foundation develop a plan to expand that conservative stamp to the broader department, recasting HHS with a focus on traditional marriage and family.
FILE - Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump, left, and Republican vice presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, attend the Republican National Convention, July 15, 2024, in Milwaukee. “When the Biden-Harris administration says would ban all chemical abortion nationally, it’s a lie, plain and simple,” he said.
Project 2025’s passages on abortion, in particular, depart significantly from what Trump has said about the issue on the campaign trail. He has said he wants abortion policy made in states, not at the federal level, and that he wouldn’t support a national ban or taking mifepristone off the market. He refashioned the official GOP platform to make scant mention of abortion, recognizing the political peril the issue posed for his campaign.
The proposals for HHS laid out in Project 2025 have alarmed LGBTQ+ advocacy groups as well as some researchers. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention would cease collecting data on gender identity because, the Project 2025 report says, it “legitimizes the unscientific notion that men can become women ,” and health agencies would study the “negative effects of cross-sex interventions” such as puberty blockers.
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