anti-contraception

The Trump administration is calling frozen embryos children – opinion

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But the move represents a dramatic escalation of the Trump administration’s pursuit of fetal personhood, the doctrine that anti-abortion forces aspire to enshrine in law whereby fertilized eggs are granted constitutional rights as persons – a regime that would ban all abortion and many kinds of birth control and miscarriage management, would curtail the basic … Read more

Why aren’t Republicans thrilled by the fall in teen pregnancies? – opinion

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By demonising birth control, she is toeing the Project 2025 line. Republicans aren’t just content with overturning the right to a safe and legal abortion; they’re also quietly undercutting access to contraception. What’s next? The party of “family values” rallying behind child marriage? Oh, wait, they’ve already ticked that one off. In recent years, several … Read more

Trump has turned Title X upside down: from a contraception program into a pronatalist machine – opinion

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This month, the Trump administration renewed its attacks on Title X, the federal reproductive health program that provides birth control to an estimated 2 million low-income Americans. In the White House’s proposed budget, funding for the program was eliminated altogether. Then, the Title X administrators at the Department of Health and Human Services announced new … Read more

Anti-Feminist Media Is Trying to Make Young Women Turn on Birth Control

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But we’ve seen far less attention paid to how young women are also being radicalized in digital spaces, similarly lured by seemingly apolitical content — about celebrity gossip, “natural” birth control, “clean girl” aesthetics, and dating — only to eventually be persuaded that our rights to abortion, contraception, even to vote or own bank accounts, … Read more

Online misinformation putting women off contraceptive pill, study finds

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Social media misinformation about the contraceptive pill is encouraging women to view it so negatively that many give it up, a study has found. Researchers have identified myths spread on TikTok and other social media platforms as a key driver of users suffering side-effects that are real but psychological in origin. It is called the … Read more

Trump cuts threaten access to birth control for millions of women

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It’s not only Title X funds that are jeopardizing access to contraception, says Kimi Chernoby, an attorney with the National Women’s Law Center. She points to cuts to Medicaid included in the Republican spending bill that was recently signed into law, which jeopardize access to healthcare — including contraception — for millions of women in … Read more