As such, Project 2025 has language in it that subtly lays the groundwork for an eventual ban on nearly all forms of female-controlled contraception. As Reproductive Freedom for All pointed out in a campaign memo, “Project 2025 includes personhood language and policies that propagate the belief that life begins at conception.” The same people perpetuate the false claim that hormonal contraception, from the birth control pill to the IUD, works by “killing” fertilized eggs. (These forms actually work by preventing fertilization.) The goal is eventually to marry the fake science to the “personhood” laws to argue that abortion bans also ban most forms of contraception. Recent Supreme Court rulings have laid the groundwork for this strategy by reifying the right-wing belief that “science” is whatever a Federalist Society-selected judge says it is.
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