The End Of Recreational Sex

Project 2025, a ban on birth control, the attack on feminism, and the fascist theocracy nipping at our heels.

Yesterday, I came across a social media post from the Satan Heritage Foundation. It was a short video clip of a British woman about ending recreational sex and birth control and “restoring sex to its true purpose.” (You can see the video here.)

Most of us know who the Heritage Foundation is. Still, if you’re unfamiliar, they are a far-right “think tank” that has wholly embraced fascism and pushes it through their influence over our courts and Republican lawmakers.

The Heritage Foundation is the most influential right-wing policy-shaping organization in the modern era. They hand-picked Trump’s Supreme Court Justices, Amy Coney-Barrett, Brett Kavanah, and Neil Gorsuch. (You know, the assholes who overturned Roe v. Wade.) Justice Clarence Thomas’ treasonous wife, Ginni Thomas, works for the Heritage Foundation. Texas’ Voter Oppression Czar, State Senator Paul Bettencourt, has made C-Span appearances with them.

You get the point. Much of the far-right ideology in this country, especially as it pertains to oppression, comes directly from the Heritage Foundation.

That brings us to Project 2025.

Project 2025 has been making the headlines over the last year. It was developed by the Heritage Foundation and aims to reshape America into a fascist theocracy. They created it with contributions from various conservative figures, including think tanks, former Trump administration members, and academics, to counter what they perceive as the “radical left’s influence.”

I suggest watching Leeja Miller’s video explainer on Project 2025 (36 minutes long).

While the premise of Project 2025 is about uniting conservatives against elite rule and “woke culture warriors,” it focuses on transforming America into the far-right’s vision of society.

The 920-page manifesto advocates for concentrating power in the presidency, promoting far-right issues, and dismantling the administrative state. The project’s leaders clarify that their strategy is not tied to a specific individual but serves as a blueprint for any future conservative leader to expand presidential power significantly.

This should give a lot more context to Trump’s promise to be a dictator when re-elected.

The purpose of Project 2025 is to destabilize the balance of power within the US government and enact policies that are out of step with the majority of American public opinion. Chaos and constitutional crises would ensue if these plans were implemented.

It isn’t only Trump’s presidency that puts us in danger.

While Trump’s presidency surely would be disastrous for women, people of color, immigrants, and people living in poverty, we have a second, potentially more harmful risk at our front door. That’s the Texas Legislature.

Given Texas’ significant influence on the national political landscape, its legislative actions often serve as a testing ground for policies that could be rolled out nationwide. This makes the state a crucial battleground for the Heritage Foundation and similar entities aiming to reshape America’s legal and social frameworks according to their far-right ideologies.

The danger lies not only in the policies themselves but in the method of their implementation. By leveraging state legislatures like Texas’, Project 2025 will create a domino effect, encouraging other states with conservative leadership to adopt similar measures. This strategy will further fragment our nation, increasing the divide between conservative and progressive values.

What will happen if people don’t get to the polls and vote against Republicans?

The overturning of Roe v. Wade was just the beginning. Of course, we’ve already seen this in Texas last year when Attorney General Ken Paxton and our Republican Supreme Court tried to kill Kate Cox.

The war on birth control has already begun. Republican organizations, judges, and legislatures have shown interest in restricting access to birth control. Missouri and Louisiana both introduced legislation that would outlaw birth control, like IUDs. An Iowa-based anti-abortion group that is advocating against the over-the-counter contraception bill states on its website that “contraception kills babies.” Even Elon Musk (who has 11 children) has hopped on the anti-birth control train.

Earlier this week, the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryos are children, which has led to hospitals and fertility clinics abruptly halting IVF treatments. One of the lobbyist groups in Texas that wined and dined the Republicans who implemented the abortion ban, Texas Right to Life, has already signaled that an IVF ban in Texas is next on the horizon.

When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, Justice Clarence Thomas wrote a concurrence, stating the court should “reconsider” similar court precedents to that of abortion rights as in Roe v. Wade. Thomas named the Griswold v. Connecticut case as one of the cases to “correct.”

Before 2026, Texas Republicans will file legislation to ban birth control.

We should also expect them to advance bills to ban IVF treatments. Project 2025 will reshape our government into an authoritarian force that will implement policies to “bring back traditional family values.”

What are the conservative ideas of “traditional family values?”

• No abortions.

• No birth control.

• No IVF.

• Only marriages/relationships between men and women.

• Men are the breadwinners; women handle domestic duties.

• Large families. Women pop out babies every two years until menopause.

• An end to divorces.

• Cuts to external childcare and education.

These Conservatives want women not to work, not hold jobs, not use birth control, and stay home rearing ten or fifteen children.

If this sounds familiar, you’ve probably seen it before.

Sometimes, life imitates art. But in the case of The Handmaid’s Tale, art imitated life. Author Margaret Atwood has spoken at length about how she drew from actual global events to create the world of Gilead and its atrocities.

The war on feminism has been around as long as feminism has existed. However, considering that Conservatives are actively trying to roll back the hands of time regarding women’s and civil rights and take us back to 1950 (when white men thought America was great), we have a lot more reasons to be concerned.

Several Texas cities have already placed travel bans on pregnant women.

Amarillo and Lubbock have already passed bans to prohibit pregnant women from traveling through their towns on their way to procure an abortion.

Should you be worried? Hell, yes. The only way we can stop what’s coming is by voting every single Republican up and down the ballot out of office.

And that takes us back to the Heritage Foundation’s assertion to end recreational sex. It’s because of birth control that women can take charge of their own sex lives. Recreational sex can sometimes lead to babies out-of-wedlock and single mothers.

If the Heritage Foundation wants to bring back the “traditional family,” they’ll have to end birth control, safety net programs, and employment opportunities. They will have to end women’s independence. With the end of independence comes the end of recreational sex.

In the Project 2025 plan, they called for rescinding of regulations “prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity, transgender status, sex characteristics, etc. They plan on targeting both the LGBTQ community and women.

Vote as if your life and freedom depend on it, but also vote for your sister, mother, wife, and all you love.

And if all else fails, burn the fucking patriarchy.

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