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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Martin Pengelly in Washington

Project 2025 architect compared abortion to slavery and the Holocaust

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The remarks by Kevin Roberts, president of the Heritage Foundation, were reported by Media Matters for America. Photograph: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call via Getty Images

In a speech earlier this year, Kevin Roberts, the architect of Project 2025, a vast plan for a second Trump administration, compared abortion to slavery, lynchings, the Holocaust, antisemitic violence and terror attacks.

“Every slave auction, every lynching, every concentration camp, every abortion mill, every pogrom, every terrorist bombing from the Middle East to Kermit Gosnell, from Herod to Hitler to Hamas, has been justified on the same inhuman pretense that the victims aren’t really people,” Roberts said.

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