Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts, an architect of the highly controversial Project 2025, has delayed publication of his upcoming book until after the 2024 presidential election.
The book, which is titled Dawn’s Early Light: Taking Back Washington To Save America and features a foreword written by Republican vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance, was shelved at a time when former President Donald Trump and his campaign have been trying to distance themselves from the project, which pushes a radical overhaul of the federal government that would give the president power to fire career civil servants and replace them with political loyalists.
However, progressive media watchdog Media Matters for America has obtained a copy of the book and has found that it contains tirades against contraception, childless Americans, and even dog parks.
When it comes to contraception, Roberts makes the case that it is at the root of much of what ails modern society.
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"We need to understand what could be called contraceptive technologies — revolutionary inventions that shape American culture away from abundance, marriage, and family — in the same vein," writes Roberts. "They shift norms, incentives, and choices, often invisibly and involuntarily. Conservatives inveigh against no-fault divorce, the Sexual Revolution, and the destruction of a culture of hope without recognizing that these cultural changes are all downstream of technological ones."
Later in the book, Roberts claims that contraception is directly responsible for the number of abortions American women have.
"As other kinds of contraceptive technologies spread, abortion rates went up, not down," he argues. "Why? Because technological change made having a child seem like an optional and not natural result of having sex and destroyed a whole series of institutions and cultural norms that had protected women and forced men to take responsibility for their actions."
Roberts sees signs of decay as a result of making having children optional — including in the proliferation of dog parks, which he calls the result of "antifamily culture shaping legislation, regulation, and enforcement throughout our sprawling government.”
