Heritage Foundation president and Project 2025 architect Kevin Roberts told a conservative audience earlier this year that access to abortion was a comparable evil to slavery, lynchings, concentration camps, and Adolf Hitler.
Roberts is closely tied to the Trump-Vance campaign. Roberts and former President Donald Trump flew on a private plane together in 2022 and then Trump praised him during a Heritage speech, stating: “He’s going to be so incredible.” Trump’s running mate, Sen. JD Vance (R-OH), wrote the foreword for Roberts' now-delayed book.
Project 2025 is the Trump-connected extremist plan to guide staffing and policy priorities for the next Republican administration. It includes proposals that would heavily diminish reproductive rights.
Roberts gave a January 20 speech to the National Pro-Life Summit, which was hosted by Project 2025 advisory board member Students for Life of America. During the speech, he said that there is an “evil that underlies mankind’s greatest horrors,” and then compared abortion access to slavery, lynchings, concentration camps, and Adolf Hitler, among others.