….Project 2025, a right-wing blueprint for the next president, targeted the state with an ultimatum that would require California to start reporting abortion data to the Centers for Disease Control or risk losing critical Medicaid funding.
Despite Trump’s attempts to distance himself from the plan during the campaign, at least 140 of his allies produced the report and he’s appointing key figures from the project to his administration. As California leaders rush to shield the state from a Trump agenda, preserving reproductive freedoms stands as a top priority….
When CalMatters first reported on the ultimatum in September, the California Department of Health Care Services didn’t provide specific figures detailing how much the state receives in federal reimbursements for reproductive healthcare provided through Medi-Cal. The department now says the federal government reimbursed California about $310.7 million for reproductive healthcare last year, according to California Department of Health Care Services figures. In the previous year, the state received $334.5 million. That funding supports Medi-Cal, the single largest payer of maternity care in the country. Medi-Cal covers about 14.2 million Californians. All told, the federal government reimbursed the state $90.9 billion for Medi-Cal last year.
Under Project 2025, all 50 states would be mandated to report detailed abortion-related data to the federal government, including information such as the reason for the abortion, the fetus’ gestational age, the birthing parent’s state of residence, whether the procedure was surgical or medication-induced, and more.
Currently, California, Maryland, and New Hampshire do not require abortion providers to share patient data with the federal government. Shortly after the overturning of Roe v. Wade, the California Department of Public Health said that it does not report abortion data federally because it is not legally obligated to do so. States that do collect abortion data typically use it for public health analyses, which can help identify gaps in care and improve access to services….
Roger Severino, who served as the Department of Health and Human Services’ director of the Office for Civil Rights under Trump, authored Project 2025’s abortion surveillance plan. He is now the vice president of domestic policy at the Heritage Foundation, the conservative think tank behind Project 2025. He declined an interview request.
Severino’s vision for remaking the department is a cornerstone of Project 2025’s effort to impose stricter federal oversight on abortion practices, particularly targeting states like California, which offers greater access to abortion services than most other states.
“Because liberal states have now become sanctuaries for abortion tourism, [the Department of Health and Human Services] should use every available tool, including the cutting of funds, to ensure that every state reports exactly how many abortions take place within its borders, at what gestational age of the child, for what reason, the mother’s state of residence, and by what method,” reads the chapter on abortion reporting….
From Cal Matters
California should definitely get an abortion cut and give that $300 Million to building housing for the homeless and feeding the poor. Give the money to organizations like Feed My Poor in Beverly Hills. End Abortion Now! Adoption is the option.
California may be a very liberal state, but it is not a communist state. It’s time you reviewed your Civics class material.
California’s Democrat communist leaders are about to find out how expensive it is to be a communist state. If you don’t have an influx of money from another source, the communist state will collapse. I’m tired of real America keeping commie California afloat. Cut off all federal funds for illegals, for welfare cheats, for abortions, for “green” energy. See how you do.
Project 2025’s plans are excellent! All Americans need a return to self-control and chastity for the unmarried, respect for girls and women, and respect for sex only as part of a sacred union, in a lifelong one man/one woman, Traditional Marriage. And abortion should be strictly illegal. We should have maternity homes and adoption services for pregnant unwed mothers. And no artificial birth control ever allowed, especially for any unmarried woman. Even St. Mother Teresa of Kolkata taught NFP– Natural Family Planning– to married women– that is a good program for married couples. And all pornographic materials of all types should be strictly illegal, with huge fines and stiff prison sentences. American women and girls should no longer be forced into sexual stereotypes, and the popular culture and fashions should not be based on such evils, so horribly degrading and harmful to women and girls, so horribly destructive to finding a good, normal excellent, mature, lifelong marriage partner. Fashion designers must grow up and stop presenting women as filthy sex-objects, harlots for vastly immature, immoral, evil men to procure. Fashion should instead present normal, feminine women, dressed gracefully, tastefully and well, enhancing her lovely, graceful, womanly feminine qualities. She is the lovely, future Bride of a young man’s dreams– to be oneday loved and cherished dearly, by her future husband and children. Women are feminine, soft and lovely, and men are strong, manly and protective– each gender is a wonderful creation of God, and each gender complements the other. No more gender garbage, no more sick feminism. No more misfit freaks cramming their unnatural, Satanic garbage down Americans’ throats!