Trump Claims He\u2019ll \u201cNever\u201d Call for Restricting Birth Control, After Saying He\u2019s \u201cLooking at\u201d Restricting Birth Control<\/p>\n
In an interview on Pittsburgh\u2019s KDKA news station, Trump was asked, \u201cDo you support any restrictions on a person\u2019s right to contraception?\u201d And his answer was not a resounding \u201cno.\u201d Instead, he responded: \u201cWe\u2019re looking at that, and I\u2019m gonna have a policy on that very shortly, and I think it\u2019s something that you\u2019ll find interesting. And it\u2019s another issue that\u2019s very interesting, but you will find it, I think, very smart; I think it\u2019s a smart decision. But we\u2019ll be releasing it very soon.\u201d<\/p>\n
Read more at Vanity Fair<\/a><\/p>\n Democrats and Republicans keep colliding over contraception<\/p>\n \u201cThe policy agenda of the Republican Party is being accomplished in the states and it looks like abortion bans, it looks like bans on contraception, it looks like bans or challenges to IVF and personhood \u2014 this is what they\u2019re about,\u201d DLCC President Heather Williams told The 19th.<\/p>\n Read more at 19th News<\/a><\/p>\n Trump and Republicans Are Not Pro-Pill, No Matter What They Say<\/p>\n But regardless of how swiftly Trump and his team backtracked on the remarks, the idea of restricting or even banning contraceptives is not a new platform for Republicans. You can see a list of some Republicans who have shown public support for that idea in a list I made this week<\/a>.<\/p>\n …<\/p>\n And even though Trump said he will never support restricting contraception, it\u2019s hard to take that at face value when he did just that while he was in office. During his first round of staffing in the White House, Trump hired people who opposed legal contraception, a new piece by Salon laid out.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n Read more at Talking Points Memo<\/a><\/p>\n \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Trump Claims He\u2019ll \u201cNever\u201d Call for Restricting Birth Control, After Saying He\u2019s \u201cLooking at\u201d Restricting Birth Control In an interview on Pittsburgh\u2019s KDKA news station, Trump was asked, \u201cDo you support any restrictions on a person\u2019s right to contraception?\u201d And his answer was not a resounding \u201cno.\u201d Instead, he responded: \u201cWe\u2019re looking at that, and … 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":[203,215,252,137],"class_list":["post-2382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-2024-election","tag-anti-abortion-candidates","tag-anti-contraception","tag-gop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2382","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=2382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2383,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2382\/revisions\/2383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}