Section 2.3 - Q16 - What Does Project 2025 Say?

“It is paramount to create a healthy culture of respect for life, the family, sovereignty, and authentic human rights in international organizations and agencies. To support this goal, the U.S. led an effort during the Trump Administration to forge a consensus among like-minded countries in support of human life, women’s health, support of the family as the basic unit of human society, and defense of national sovereignty. The result was the Geneva Consensus Declaration on Women’s Health and Protection of the Family.”

Citation: Project 2025, Section 2.3: Department of State, Kiron Skinner, page 224, paragraph 3

Context:

Sounds good on the surface, right? Wrong. The Geneva Consensus she’s referring to opposes abortion, and emphasizes that thre is no international obligation to recognize abortion as a human right, and that decisions on reproductive health and family matters should be made at the national level. Read the last half of that sentence again. The “like-minded” countries that also signed? The United States (under Trump), Brazil, Egypt, Hungary, Poland, and Uganda.

After the Biden administration took office in 2021, the U.S. withdrew from the declaration, signaling a policy shift toward supporting reproductive rights, including access to safe and legal abortion, in line with international human rights standards. Skinner is arguing for bringing this back. This is a cleverly disguised argument for a federal abortion ban.

Full contextual analysis of Section 2.3: Department of State here.

Section: Section 2.3: Department of State

Categories: Abortion, Reproductive Health, Reproductive Rights