Project 2025 Payday: JD Vance, Peter Thiel, Palantir & Trump's Tech Billionaire Donors

Menstrual monitoring

Follow the money to see why billionaires give millions to a candidate

• Peter Thiel, tech billionaire funded JD Vance's senate campaign and helped get him the Republican Vice President nomination. - Politico

• Vance voted for menstrual surveillance by state law enforcement agencies. - TPM

• Vance wrote the foreword for a new book by Project 2025’s architect and backs some of its most extreme ideas. - Vox

• Project 2025 proposes punishment for women who have abortions. - MS Magazine

• Trump says women who have abortions should be punished - Mother Jones

• Peter Thiel's firm Palantir specializes in collecting and analyzing large amounts of data about people. - NY Mag

• Palantir got over $127 million for its work on an ICE surveillance contract. - Business Insider

Follow the money with this relationship map to see how Thiel's Palantir could make billions from monitoring menstrual data from millions of American women. And how this ties into Project 2025 and Trump's demand for punishing women who have an abortion.

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Your local sheriff wants to know about your menstrual cycle

• Consider the ability of a woman from an abortion-ban state to travel to another state to get a legal abortion

• Laws could attempt to restrict travel to receive abortions in other states, charge those who travel or criminalize those who might facilitate such travel

• Local police agencies might simply take it upon themselves to pull records to see who had unexplained disruptions to their menstrual cycles.

• To enforce these laws or know when there’s something to enforce you really need access to medical records. You need to know and be able to prove when a woman was pregnant and then, before the end of normal gestation, stopped being pregnant.

Menstrual surveillance

• Vance was one of only eight Republican senators willing to go this hard for menstrual surveillance by state law enforcement agencies.

• Vance was one of only eight senators who thought this rule was a bridge too far and endangered “valid state laws protecting life” and would “limit cooperation with law enforcement.” - TPM

"Vance and 28 other conservative lawmakers sent a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra demanding the department withdraw the draft rule. They argued that the Biden administration had overstepped its constitutional bounds and unlawfully infringed on congressional power." - The Lever

Your private health data is being exploited

How pregnancy / abortion related data can get you arrested

Project 2025: MAGA Plan to Attack Birth Control, Surveil Women and Ban the Abortion Pill

Republicans’ Project 2025 blueprint spells out how they’ll leverage virtually every arm, tool and agency of the federal government to attack abortion. GOP operatives have already crafted an expansive blueprint, 887 pages long, laying out in painstaking detail how they intend to govern, including plans to leverage virtually every arm, tool and agency of the federal government to attack abortion access.

The document explicitly names their intention not just to rescind FDA approval for the abortion pill if they regain control of the White House in 2024, but to revive a 150-year-old law that criminalizes sending or receiving through the mail any “article, instrument, substance, drug, medicine or thing” that could be used to facilitate an abortion. That law, the Comstock Act, is viewed as a de facto federal abortion ban by reproductive rights advocates and anti-abortion activists alike. - Rolling Stone

TakeAway: Follow the money! Billionaires don't give away millions without expecting something in return. Who ends up getting hurt?

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