Jessica Valenti: The GOP's Plan to Ban Birth Control (Part II)

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https://jessica.substack.com/p/the-gops-plan-to-ban-birth-control-09e

Republicans sure are talking a lot about birth control! Nikki Haley has made asking, “Can’t we all agree that contraception should be available?,” a regular talking point in speeches and on the campaign trail. Other Republican women are making a big show of proposing legislation they claim will protect contraception (experts say otherwise). Even Mike Pence is getting in on the action, telling Fox News that he “fully” supports birth control.

With voters’ post-Roe fury showing no sign of abating, conservatives are eager to seem reasonable on reproductive rights—that increasingly means promising Americans that they support contraception and would never, ever try to make it illegal.

But the assurances are empty promises, meant to placate voters out of noticing that our ability to access contraception is being eroded with every new conservative policy. After all, Republicans don’t need to explicitly outlaw birth control in order to keep women from taking it—they just have to make it impossible to obtain.

If your pharmacist has the right to refuse you emergency contraception, it’s irrelevant whether the medication is legal or not. If your insurance company can deny you coverage for an IUD, who cares what the law says? And if the only ‘clinic’ in your area is a crisis pregnancy center with a policy against prescribing or even talking about birth control, Republicans can still claim that contraception is legal—even as women are unable to get any.

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1. If the repugs try this and SCOTUS goes along, they will lose the '24 election.

Not just for the WH but down ballot all through the states. Banning birth control is like telling women, and men really, YOU ARE NOT TO HAVE SEX OUTSIDE OF MARRIAGE, AND IN MARRIAGES, YOU MUST HAVE THE BABIES THAT RESULT.

The people are nuts with their invasions of privacy and trying to put a stop to natural, human behavior.

But let them carry on, it's a guaranteed election loser.