To the Editor:

Let’s be perfectly clear — June Cleaver, Harriet Nelson and Margaret Anderson are not coming back. The classic examples of the wife/mother of the 50s and 60s who greeted her husband/breadwinner at the front door upon his return from work with a martini while wearing her shirtwaist dress, stockings, heels, an apron and pearls are thankfully long gone.

They are not coming back and we are not going back.

The conservative authors behind Project 2025 would like to think otherwise. They long for the days when women “knew their place” – at home having lots of kids, whether they want to or not. If this also means staying in an abusive relationship so be it, according to JD Vance.

Project 2025 would use the Food and Drug Administration to reverse its 2000 approval of mifepristone and encourage the Dept of Justice to enforce the 1873 Comstock Act, which would prohibit the mailing of this medication across state lines. They would also remove the emergency contraception mandate in the Affordable Care Act so private insurers no longer have to cover it. These republican extremists want to restrict women’s access to contraception — limiting their right to control their own futures. After the Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade, Clarence Thomas mused that it might be time to take a new look at Griswold v Connecticut, which gave us access to contraceptives and allowed us to envision a future with more diverse opportunities.

To quote Kamala Harris in her acceptance speech at the Convention “They are out of their minds”!

Republican controlled states with strict abortion regulations are seeing a decrease in available medical care for women and an increase in maternal mortality — this from the party of family values!

Project 2025 is the republican playbook for the future designed to take us backwards. Do your research then Vote Blue!

Kathy Quinn

Newtown