Top red flags

Top red flags

• Worked for the prominent anti-abortion organization the Ethics and Public Policy Center, promoting harmful laws, policies and research that would restrict access to reproductive health services, including abortion, contraception, and IVF.
• Championed Federal anti-abortion legislation.
• Contributed to Project 2025, which calls on OPA to reinstate the domestic gag rule; this would prevent Title X grantees from providing information about critical reproductive health care. 

Statements

Statements

• Dodson praised President Trump for pardoning FACE act violators, reinstating the Global Gag Rule, rejoining the “Geneva Consensus Declaration”, and signing anti-abortion Executive Orders.  
• Dodson championed the “Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Act,” legislation that uses stigmatizing language and the threat of harsh penalties to shame patients and scare providers from providing safe, quality abortion care. 
• Dodson used false and inflammatory rhetoric about medication abortion and said that she was “endlessly grateful” that Roe was overturned while speaking at an anti-abortion rally. 

Publications

Publications

• Dodson has written extensively about restricting access to reproductive health services, including abortion, contraception, and IVF, in her role as a Policy Analyst at the anti-abortion Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC) including:
  • A policy brief promoting the tenets of “blame-and-shame fertility.”
  • An article opposing bipartisan efforts to protect IVF, promoting embryonic personhood (the concept that frozen embryos are human beings), and claiming that the “the pro-life movement cannot support creating a family at the expense of destroying human life” (referring to the destruction of embryos). 
  • An article opposing Congressional efforts to create a statutory right to contraception and promoting misinformation about contraception. 
  • An op-ed encouraging the restriction of IVF and claiming that “for women, especially older women, IVF is neither an ‘effective’ nor a ‘reliable’ way to achieve a pregnancy.”
  • An op-ed advocating for the “Reproductive Empowerment and Support through Optimal Restoration (RESTORE) Act,” which promotes tenets of “blame-and-shame fertility” and makes it easier for health care providers to deny IVF and other assisted reproductive care because of “sincerely held religious beliefs or moral convictions.”
• Dodson also co-authored multiple public comments for EPPC opposing Federal rulemaking that would expand reproductive health access, including:
  • A public comment in opposition to a Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) rule that expanded access to abortion counseling and services in VA facilities.
  • A public comment in opposition to an Indian Health Service (IHS) proposed rule that would narrowly expand Federal funding for abortion care in circumstances of rape and incest.  
  • A public comment in opposition to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s (EEOC) proposed rule implementing the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, which provided workplace accommodations for abortion. 
    

A public comment in opposition to a HHS proposed rule that would have expanded contraceptive coverage under the Affordable Care Act.

Extremist connections

Extremist connections

• Dodson worked for the anti-abortion organization the Ethics and Public Policy Center as a Policy Analyst, focusing on “abortion” and “sexuality” policy initiatives. 
• Dodson worked for the anti-abortion organization the Becket Fund, which has litigated and participated in numerous cases on behalf of anti-abortion and anti-contraception individuals and groups under the guise of “religious liberty.”   
• Dodson contributed to Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation’s blueprint for a second Trump term, which advocates for surveillance of OPA grant recipients to make sure they “do not promote abortion” and calls for reinstating the domestic gag rule, which would prevent Title X grantees from providing information about critical reproductive health care.