Health and Human Services Under Project 2025

For a long time, when I learned about people’s history, I never understood how groups of people would be fighting each other when they clearly were both affected negatively by the same larger force.  Unfortunately, I feel like I have gotten a real front row seat to it in the past 10 years.  We’ve gone through a whole decade of social unrest due to various factors. When one topic takes the stage for a moment, somehow the discourse becomes…”yes, but…”.  Of course, if they keep a group of people fighting amongst themselves, then they never see the forest through the trees.

Project 2025 is an in depth roadmap that was created by the Heritage Foundation which is a conservative “think” tank. I will read to you a small paragraph on page 451 under the chapter of Health and Human Services.

Goal #3- Promoting Stable and Flourishing Married Families
Families comprised of a married father, mother, and their children are the foundation of a well ordered nation and a healthy society. Unfortunately, family policies and programs under President Biden’s HHS are fraught with agenda items focusing on “LGBTQ+ equity”, subsidizing single-motherhood, disincentivizing work, and penalizing marriage. These policies should be repealed and replaced by policies that support the formation of stable, married, nuclear families.

Working fathers are essential to the well-being and development of their children, but the United States is experiencing a crisis of fatherlessness that is ruining our children’s futures.  In the overwhelming number of cases, fathers insulate children from physical and sexual abuse, financial difficulty, or poverty, incarceration, teen pregnancy, poor educational outcomes, high school failure and a host of behavioral and psychological problems.  By contrast, homes with non-related “boyfriends” present are among the most dangerous place for a child to be. HHS should prioritize married father engagement in its messaging, health, and welfare policies.

In the context of current and emerging reproductive technologies, HHS policies should never place the desires of adults over the right of children to the biological fathers and mothers who conceive them. In cases involving biological parents who are found by a court to be unfit because of abuse or neglect, the process of adoption should be speedy, certain, and supported generously by HHS.

Everything intersects in this one “goal”.  All the homophobia, transphobia, misogyny, and if you listen closely, racism.  So as we move forward, instead of saying “yes but…” let’s start saying “yes….and” because that is what they are