. . . that Republicans are now coming after contraception -- they want to ban teaching about contraception, providing contraceptive devices or medication, or using contraceptive devices or medication. The same people who overturned Roe v. Wade are now coming after your birth control pills.
This is NOT A JOKE.
For most of our history, contraception was whispered about. In most states, it was illegal to manufacture, sell, use, or teach about contraceptive devices. Under the Connecticut Comstock Act of 1873 it was illegal to use "any drug, medicinal article, or instrument for the purpose of preventing conception".
In 1961 Estelle Griswold and Dr. Lee Buxton opened a clinic in New Haven to teach about contraception and provide contraceptives. Griswold was arrested, found guilty, and appealed. Her case went to the Supreme Court who ruled in Griswold v. Connecticut, 1965, that “marital privacy” is a protected right and contraception is a protected private matter -- just as Roe v. Wade was based largely on privacy rights.
In his concurrence with overturning Roe, Justice Thomas wrote: “In future cases, we should reconsider all of this court’s substantive due process precedents, including Griswold, . . . Because any substantive due process decision is ‘demonstrably erroneous’ we have a duty to ‘correct the error’ established in those precedents.” According to Thomas, it is “erroneous” for people to have the right to contraception and Griswold was a mistake.
In an attempt to protect access to contraception, in July 2022 the House of Representatives passed the “Right to Contraception Act”. 195 REPUBLICANS VOTED “NAY”.
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