Trump says he won’t ‘ban’ birth control. Here’s what he may do instead
The “Project 2025” blueprint includes proposals to remove requirements that insurance cover male condoms and emergency contraception. Read more at Politico
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Trump’s ambiguous comments on contraception
Trump Claims He’ll “Never” Call for Restricting Birth Control, After Saying He’s “Looking at” Restricting Birth Control In an interview on Pittsburgh’s KDKA news station, Trump was asked, “Do you support any restrictions on a person’s right to contraception?” And his answer was not a resounding “no.” Instead, he responded: “We’re looking at that, and … Read more
How Conservatives Are Rebranding Pro-Life
All of these efforts — the fake ballot measures, text trickery, and the war on language — are being pushed precisely because Republicans know that Americans support abortion rights. They know they can’t win on their own arguments and merits, so they try to lie and fool voters in order to win. As we speed … Read more
Trump May Have Back-Tracked But The GOP Has Supported Restricting Contraceptives For Years
Many in the Republican Party elevated the idea of restricting access to birth control as the next front in the religious right’s war on reproductive rights after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in the summer of 2022 — and some even before that. Read more at Talking Points Memo
Trump and the GOP do not appear to be strong supporters of contraception access
Trump says he will ‘never advocate’ for contraception restrictions after earlier saying he’s ‘looking at’ them Read more at Politico Trump leaves the door open to new restrictions on contraception Around the same time, a variety of GOP lawmakers and candidates also eagerly rejected the Griswold precedent, leading House Democratic leaders — at the time, … Read more
Virginia governor allows Confederate groups to keep tax exemptions
The Republican governor vetoed several measures, including those related to maintaining access to contraception, saying in a statement they were “not ready to become law”. Read more at The Guardian
“Screws up female brains”: MAGA leaders are conditioning Republicans to back birth control bans
Charlie Kirk, the head of the MAGA propaganda behemoth Turning Point USA, recently unveiled a novel theory as to why young women tend to vote for Democrats. Unwilling to admit that women can think for themselves, Kirk floated the theory that birth control pills cause brain damage. Read more at Salon
The Republican party has become a full-fledged anti-sex movement – opinion
The far right the Heritage Foundation belongs to is, nevertheless, driving toward this goal by striving to take away birth control and abortion to make sex punitively risky for anyone who might get pregnant. Taking away women’s reproductive freedom takes away other freedoms, social, economic and educational, and rebuilds a society of gender inequality, which … Read more
The Group Behind Dobbs Does Not Want to Talk About What Comes Next
She was candid about the fact that the ADF’s current lawsuit is part of a much broader legal strategy to restrict access to abortion, and she defended her belief that the 14th Amendment guarantees equal protection to all embryos from the moment of conception — a position that, if endorsed by the courts, would likely … Read more
Abortion influences everything
By inhibiting drug development, economic growth, and military recruitment, as well as driving doctors away from the places they’re needed most, bans almost certainly harm you — yes, you. Read more at Vox