{"id":1524,"date":"2023-10-13T15:52:17","date_gmt":"2023-10-13T22:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/?p=1524"},"modified":"2023-10-13T15:52:17","modified_gmt":"2023-10-13T22:52:17","slug":"the-gops-complicated-contraceptive-dance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/2023\/10\/13\/the-gops-complicated-contraceptive-dance\/","title":{"rendered":"The GOP\u2019s complicated contraceptive dance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At a Turning Point USA women\u2019s summit held in June, podcast host <b>Alex Clark<\/b> encouraged women to stop taking their hormonal birth control, because, she said, \u201cit is completely altering your personality\u201d and that \u201cmany birth control pills are actually abortifacients.\u201d The same month, <b>Marjorie Taylor Greene<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/correcting-misinformation-about-how-plan-b-works\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">falsely claimed<\/a> that the \u201cPlan B pill kills a baby in the womb once a woman is already pregnant.\u201d And in his concurring opinion to the <i>Dobbs<\/i> decision, <b>Clarence Thomas<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/06\/24\/thomas-constitutional-rights-00042256\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">suggested that the court reconsider other cases<\/a>, including <i>Griswold v. Connecticut<\/i>, the 1965 case that granted married couples the right to buy and use contraceptives.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/newsletters\/women-rule\/2023\/10\/13\/the-gops-complicated-contraceptive-dance-00121419\">Politico<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a Turning Point USA women\u2019s summit held in June, podcast host Alex Clark encouraged women to stop taking their hormonal birth control, because, she said, \u201cit is completely altering your personality\u201d and that \u201cmany birth control pills are actually abortifacients.\u201d The same month, Marjorie Taylor Greene falsely claimed that the \u201cPlan B pill kills &#8230; <a title=\"The GOP\u2019s complicated contraceptive dance\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/2023\/10\/13\/the-gops-complicated-contraceptive-dance\/\" aria-label=\"More on The GOP\u2019s complicated contraceptive dance\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[131,137],"class_list":["post-1524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-contraception","tag-gop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1525,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524\/revisions\/1525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}