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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRepublicans Move to Restrict Birth Control
https://politicalwire.com/2021/07/02/republicans-move-to-restrict-birth-control/
Republicans Move to Restrict Birth Control
July 2, 2021 at 6:46 am EDT By Taegan Goddard
Molly Jong-Fast: Republicans have started to blur the lines between birth control and abortion in the hopes of making it harder for American women to obtain either.
And nowhere is this clearer than in the Missouri statehouse, where lawmakers debated whether they needed to restrict Medicaid coverage of birth control and limit payments to Planned Parenthood. Yes, as the Kansas City Star reported, lawmakers there spent hours last week in a discussion that resembled a remedial sex-education course. It was a tricky play, attacking birth control as a way to attack abortion, and it didnt work this time.
And nowhere is this clearer than in the Missouri statehouse, where lawmakers debated whether they needed to restrict Medicaid coverage of birth control and limit payments to Planned Parenthood. Yes, as the Kansas City Star reported, lawmakers there spent hours last week in a discussion that resembled a remedial sex-education course. It was a tricky play, attacking birth control as a way to attack abortion, and it didnt work this time.
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Republicans Move to Restrict Birth Control (Original Post)
babylonsister
Jul 2021
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Mariana
(14,854 posts)1. A lot of people believe Plan B, IUD's, and even ordinary birth control pills
work by causing abortions. This has been going on for years.
Wounded Bear
(58,623 posts)3. Without misinformation, they would have no information at all...
and we'd be better off if they knew "less" about what they're fighting for.
JHB
(37,158 posts)5. They think that because they've been deliberately lied to
The zealots driving this agenda are out to assert authority over people's (most especially women's) lives. "Protecting babies" had been a very useful PR tool in gaining support to restrict and ban abortions. It's also useful for them to use it against contraception, where they'd have a harder time swaying people without it.
Solly Mack
(90,762 posts)2. K&R
JHB
(37,158 posts)4. They started the blurring long ago, the legal blurring is catching up
The sex-control zealots have had their sights on overturning Griswold v Connecticut even longer than overturning Roe v Wade.