'Anti-Contraception': Kimberly Inez McGuire Raises Alarms About GOP's Project 2025 Plan For Trump

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Kimberly Inez McGuire, the executive director of Unite for Reproductive and Gender Equity, spoke to ForbesWomen editor Maggie McGrath about a new effort to protect reproductive health access in the U.S.

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00:00As we wind down this conversation,

00:01I want to circle back to where we started,

00:03which is this $100 million campaign, which

00:05you unveiled this week.

00:07What has been the early reaction to the campaign?

00:10Is the number of dollars increasing already?

00:13Have you seen more financial support

00:15as you've come out with this?

00:17The most exciting thing for me is

00:19that we have seen so many organizations that

00:21want to be a part of it.

00:23We started with nine organizations

00:25on the executive committee.

00:26We quickly grew our steering committee to over 25.

00:30There are folks all over this country

00:31from a wide range of entry points

00:34to this movement who want to be a part of this.

00:36That includes young people, Black women, Latinas,

00:38API folks.

00:39That includes providers.

00:41That includes folks who have seen from all different angles

00:44how harmful abortion bans are.

00:46So I expect we're going to continue to grow

00:49and continue to build a mass movement to demand

00:52an end to abortion bans.

00:54We've covered a lot of ground from this $100 million

00:57campaign to abortion ballot initiatives

00:59to recent Supreme Court decisions.

01:01But is there anything else, Kimberly, that is on your radar

01:04right now when it comes to reproductive health access

01:06and equity that you wish to share with the Forbes audience?

01:10I think we need to keep in mind that the conservative agenda

01:13includes what goes so far beyond abortion bans.

01:16They have started to show their cards in things

01:18like Project 2025, which clearly articulates

01:21an agenda that is anti-abortion, anti-contraception,

01:24anti-IVF.

01:26They do not want us to be able to plan and build

01:28our families on our own terms.

01:30So whether abortion is a motivating issue for you,

01:33whether it's contraception, whether it's

01:35fertility treatment, the other side's agenda is clear.

01:40They want to stop us from controlling our lives,

01:42our bodies, our families.

01:44And we on the side of reproductive justice

01:46plan to stop them.

01:48Kimberly Inez McGuire, thank you so much for joining us

01:51and explaining this all.

01:52We really appreciate your time.

01:53Thank you so much, Maggie.

01:54I appreciate it.

'Anti-Contraception': Kimberly Inez McGuire Raises Alarms About GOP's Project 2025 Plan For Trump

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