Republicans Want to Bring Women Back to the 1950s

Ultimately, Republicans want fetal personhood—which affords embryos the same rights as people—but that unscientific principle will make IVF unsustainable because embryos are always lost in the process.

Republicans haven’t just limited themselves to reproductive rights; they are also coming for women’s legal rights. Consider the Republican bid to end no-fault divorce—something that was signed into law by Ronald Reagan way back in 1969, when he was the governor of California.

Another part of the GOP plan to return women to the 1960s centers on birth control. Senate Republicans voted against beginning work on the Right to Contraception Act, a bill that would enshrine the right to birth control.

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