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FL NOW Rejects the Project 2025 “250 Year Plan” to Reshape America and Roll Back Women’s Rights

For Immediate Release: February 16, 2026  President Julie Kent, Florida NOW

Florida NOW forcefully rejects the Heritage Foundation’s recently released 250‑Year Plan, a companion ideological framework to Project 2025, which outlines a long-term strategy to restructure American society by restricting women’s autonomy, limiting educational and economic opportunity, and imposing a narrow vision of family life on the entire nation.

The plan claims to “save America,” but its proposals would dismantle decades of progress for women and girls. According to the document, this vision requires:

  • Pushing women out of college by discouraging higher education and promoting early marriage instead
  • Pushing women out of leadership by redefining public life as a male domain
  • Pushing women out of the workforce through policies that pressure women back into unpaid domestic roles
  • Restricting contraception and undermining access to modern reproductive health care
  • Rolling back no‑fault divorce, trapping women—especially survivors of abuse—in unsafe marriages
  • Marrying girls and women younger, framing early marriage as a national priority
  • Forcing more births by limiting reproductive freedom and expanding state control over pregnancy

“These proposals are about controlling women,” said Florida NOW President Julie Kent. “The 250‑Year Plan lays out a blueprint for shrinking women’s rights, women’s choices, women’s autonomy, and women’s futures. Florida NOW will not tolerate any agenda that seeks to push women out of public life and back into the 19th century.”

The plan’s recommendations would have profound consequences for Florida, where women are already facing extreme restrictions on reproductive health care, attacks on academic freedom, and efforts to limit economic opportunity. Florida NOW warns that adopting these policies would deepen inequality, increase poverty, and undermine the safety and autonomy of women and girls across the state.

“Women built this country, and we are not going anywhere,” Debbie Deland, VP FL NOW said. “We will continue to organize, educate, and mobilize to ensure that Florida—and the nation—moves forward, not backward. This abuse of power and of women will not be accepted or supported. This lack of support for women’s rights is outrageous.
This white male supremacist vision is out of sync with what women need. Women are not to going to have more children because white men say so!”

Florida NOW calls on elected officials, community partners, and the public to reject the Project 2025–aligned 250‑Year Plan and to stand firmly for equality, freedom, and self‑determination for all.

### Media Contact: Debbie Deland, 407 234-6408, vp@flnow.org