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From the New York Times: The 4B movement that started in South Korea encourages the rejection of heterosexual dating, marriage, sex and childbirth. Since Donald Trump was elected, women across the U.S. are looking to the ideas as a display of self-protection.
The Nation article: Abortion wins at the ballot box again, but Republicans do too
From KQED News
"Project 2025 — a detailed, 900-page policy agenda for the next Republican presidency authored and supported by Trump allies, former and current Trump staffers and his running mate JD Vance — has called for a national database where states would report abortions. Cohen described this proposal as “basically Big Brother.”
Project 2025 also aims to revive parts of the Comstock Act, a law from the late 1800s that bans the mailing of “obscene” items such as contraceptives. (The act faced intense criticism at the time and was restricted in 1930, but it was never fully repealed. Roe v. Wade overruled it, and when Roe v. Wade was overturned, the Biden administration said it would not apply the Comstock Act.)
“States like California and New York that have constitutional protections for abortion rights and reproductive health care in general … those become meaningless,” Cohen said. “Federal law will trump state protection.”
Another Trump term would mean he could appoint more conservative-leaning Supreme Court justices and federal judges. In states like Alabama, Cohen noted, right-leaning judges have increasingly wielded arguments that personhood begins at conception.
“Something like that would outlaw the IUD,” she said."
From Jefferson Public Radio / CalMatters
"California is one of only three states that do not report abortion data to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Project 2025’s proposed federal mandate directly conflicts with the state’s strong protections for patient privacy and could dismantle the legal and ethical foundations that have made California a refuge for those seeking reproductive care.
The blueprint, crafted by Donald Trump allies and leaders in his first administration, clearly targets states with abortion protections like California, seeking the kind of data that could be used to target abortion-seekers or even criminally punish out-of-staters who come to the state for reproductive health services."
