Rightwing disinformation on Plan B vending machines at colleges ‘harmful to young lives’
“There’s so much misinformation coming from the right,” she said. “To call Plan B an abortion pill is completely wrong.” Read more at The Guardian
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Pence says abortion should be banned for nonviable pregnancies
Pence is the only GOP presidential candidate to publicly support a national abortion ban at six weeks. One in three women confirm their pregnancies past the six-week mark, according to a November 2021 study published in the journal Contraception. He has also supported bans on birth control and pushed a 15-week abortion ban as a … Read more
Conservative influencers are pushing an anti-birth control message
The social media trend of attacking birth control has also coincided with legal and legislative efforts targeting birth control access, most notably emergency contraceptives. In response to the Supreme Court’s ruling that revoked the constitutional right to an abortion, Justice Clarence Thomas wrote that the court “should reconsider” other decisions, including those codifying the right … Read more
Congress must codify the right to contraception before it’s too late (opinion)
The MAGA Republican Party’s war on abortion has largely overshadowed its attempts to ban our right to contraception and its refusal to preserve this well-established right. Given that 90 percent of Americans support the right to use birth control, this commonsense issue should be noncontroversial. Read more at The Hill
Fear of pregnancy: One teen’s story in post-Roe America
“I don’t think that it was ever expected that I would want birth control,” Juliet explains. “I just didn’t want to have to be so worried about – if I ever did get raped, which I hope it doesn’t happen, but if it ever does happen and I wasn’t on birth control, there would be … Read more
Column: Hang on to the pill and your IUD: After abortion, birth control is the next fight (op-ed)
Mark my words: Contraception is the next front in the war on women. And we can’t say we haven’t been warned. Read more at the Los Angeles Times
Girls in Texas could get birth control at federal clinics — until a dad sued
In his opinion, Kacsmaryk agreed, writing that “the use of contraception (just like abortion) violates traditional tenets of many faiths, including the Christian faith plaintiff practices.” Moreover, Kacsmaryk, who is a Christian, said the existence of federal clinics operating in Texas, where state law otherwise requires parental permission for teenage girls to receive contraception, posed … Read more
Americans don’t know if abortion is legal in their state, new poll shows
Half of women are unsure if medication abortion is legal in their state, and a third don’t know if they are allowed to access emergency contraceptive pills, new polling from the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) found. Read more at The 19th
‘We Can’t Back Down’: Congresswomen Share Their Abortion Stories on Roe Anniversary
“The chaos we’ve seen over the past six months is the environment anti-abortion politicians have worked for decades to create, and they won’t stop with Roe. While we work to protect and restore access to abortion, more attacks on sexual and reproductive health are happening now,” she said. “The path ahead will be challenging. It … Read more
A notorious Trump judge just fired the first shot against birth control
And so, last Thursday, the inevitable occurred. Kacsmaryk handed down a decision claiming that “the Title X program violates the constitutional right of parents to direct the upbringing of their children.” Kacsmaryk’s decision is riddled with legal errors, some of them obvious enough to be spotted by a first-year law student. And it contradicts a … Read more