Letter to the Editor: Submitted by Ann Fields

To the Editor:

The Heritage Foundation has published Project 2025, a 900-plus page document outlining policies that will be implemented if its supporters win the presidency in 2025. This plan takes away individual freedoms, rewards big business, and gives absolute power to the President.

Here are a few freedoms that will be curtailed:
· Women’s freedoms, including the freedom concerning reproductive health and the freedom to leave a marriage, will be taken away. That’s right. Not only does Project 2025 prohibit abortion for any reason, Project 2025 wants to outlaw no-fault divorce and will not allow women to file for divorce while pregnant, for any reason.
· Big Pharma wants to control all medical care, so the Affordable Care Act and lower drug prices will be rescinded.
· The construction industry wants to control the housing industry, so no more affordable housing.
· The civil service workforce will be replaced with partisan loyalists with no accountability.
· Since climate change is a hoax, businesses can pollute water and air without consequences.
· The energy lobby will relax the air emissions, stop all subsidies of electric vehicles and when oil reserves dwindle, higher prices will be the norm.
· Isolationism trade policies and tariffs will cause prices to rise and more money for U.S. businesses.
· Civil rights protections across multiple fronts will be stopped, including cutting diversity, equity, and inclusion-related programs and LGBTQ+ rights in health care, education, and workplaces. If you aren’t white and straight, there will be no protection for you.

Be an informed voter. Know the policies of each party and decide which party represents your best interests. The only way to keep individual freedoms and stop Project 2025 is at the ballot box.

Ann Fields
Lansing