#anti contraception

[tradflowr]

Worth a read.

[mollyjimbly]

I just keep seeing scares about "worldwide population decline"

"people have to start have more babies now because there will not be enough future workers"

they want all uterus owners to breed so badly, but they will not even give us the support, not to mention the fact that not every uterus owner wants to be a parent.

honestly just not even feeling like a person anymore because of this... i just feel like a womb

just let me find someone who will look after me if i have to be a perpetually pregnant broodmare... can I at least get compensation and the right care...

[lainalit]

Wait a damn minute I'm just realising that feyre's reason in Acofas why she wanted a child was because she wanted to have something that remains her of rhysand when he dies but feysand made a death pact at the end of acowar so if rhysand dies she is also dead which cancels out her whole reason for having a child ????????

At this point I'm convinced SJM doing it on purpose with the whole plotholes in her books

[happybird16]

Imagine flirtingly asking Senku how difficult it'd be to make contraceptives in the stone world only to be met with a long rant + diagram about sheep intestines and Queen Ann's Lace

[teenage-fangirl-dirtbag]

Do you guys know the biggest prevention of abortion is?

CONTRACEPTION!

It makes no sense being anti abortion AND anti contraception; cause contraception is waaaay more effective on lowering abortion rates than banning abortions is!

So if you're anti abortion, you should be very pro contraception! It's the most effective!

[odinsblog]

WTF is going on at Walgreens??

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[sorrowandpride]

Listen, I know that medical misogyny is a huge thing with a deep history, and people do blame women's valid reactions to oppression and abuse on our menses.

HOWEVER, to not only claim, but also ARGUE, that menstrual conditions like PMS, PMDD, and menstrual psychosis have no biological reality and are simply the result of misogyny IS medical misogyny.

Not everyone's neurological system reacts the same to fluctuations in female sex hormones, especially if they're neurodivergent (PMDD, for example, has a much higher incidence in people with autism and/or ADHD). While I understand the fear of creating a new hysteria, disregarding women's very real ailments as socially constructed does just that.

Women have literally taken their own lives because of PMDD, and the notion that it has no biological reality is both heartbreaking and infuriating, ESPECIALLY when it's perpetuated by fellow women. If a person's symptoms consistently occur at the same time in their menstrual cycle, that alone suggests a neurohormonal etiology.

While many things are caused/influenced/exacerbated by socioeconomic factors, not everything has a socioeconomic cause. Living in a world with complete equity will not eliminate all disorders, and there's no shame in admitting that biology is not perfect. There's also no shame in requiring psychiatric and/or hormonal medications to treat a condition, and I'm absolutely sick and tired of the notion that social change and healthy living will cure everything. I consistently take vitamins, exercise, and make my meals from scratch. However, I still need medication to suppress ovulation and my menstrual cycle to function. In my (and many others') case, supplements don't do shit as treatment.

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Senate Republicans vote against bill to guarantee access to contraception

In the Dobbs decision, Justice Thomas suggested that the rationale for overturning Roe applied to legal precedent that protected the right to contraception. Since Dobbs, state courts and legislatures have been chipping away at drugs and procedures (like mifepristone and IVF) that were protected before Dobbs. And Project 2025—the blueprint for a second Trump term—has a provision to allow insurers to eliminate coverage for contraception.

In short, there are warning signs that Republicans won’t stop until they have prohibited contraception. On Thursday, Senate Democrats put Republican intentions about contraception to the test. Democrats proposed a bill that would guarantee access to contraception.

Republicans defeated the bill, claiming it was unnecessary because contraception is protected under Supreme Court precedent. Of course, abortion was protected by Supreme Court precedent until it wasn’t. See NBC News, Senate Republicans block bill to protect access to contraception.

Senator Schumer intends to bring the bill up again—forcing more Senate Republicans to go on record opposing the right to access contraception. We must ensure that Democrats everywhere—especially men and women of child-bearing age—understand that Republicans are coming from their contraception.

[Robert B. Hubbell Newsletter]

[tomorrowusa]

Republicans won't stop at abortion. They want to be overseers of all reproduction. They won't be happy unless they are able to monitor every bedroom and doctor's office in the US.

We recently saw how the Republican Alabama Supreme Court ruled against IVF. That ruling was peppered with copious references to Christian fundamentalist beliefs.

Now Republicans are turning attention to birth control. The unhinged MAGA crank Charlie Kirk ranted about this recently.

Charlie Kirk, the head of the MAGA propaganda behemoth Turning Point USA, recently unveiled a novel theory as to why young women tend to vote for Democrats. Unwilling to admit that women can think for themselves, Kirk floated the theory that birth control pills cause brain damage. "Birth control like really screws up female brains," he falsely claimed before a crowd at a recent church event streamed on the far-right site Rumble. Claiming the pill "increases depression, anxiety [and] suicidal ideation," he then blamed women's voting patterns on hormonal contraception. "It creates very angry and bitter young ladies and young women," Kirk argued.

I would argue that Trump and his followers are the ones with screwed up brains. There is a strong tendency of misogynistic patriarchy in the GOP. They feel a need to control women – possibly because of their own feelings of sexual inadequacy.

But of course, Kirk is not sincerely mistaken and he certainly isn't concerned about the wellbeing of women, which all reputable research shows is dramatically improved by having control over their fertility. Kirk's doctor cosplay is part of a much larger and semi-coordinated strategy among right-wing leaders to demonize birth control and train the GOP base into believing that restricting, or even banning, contraception is justified.  As the Washington Post reported last month, right-wing activists have been flooding social media with the same lies that Kirk was echoing in this video. It's a well-financed disinformation campaign, getting a major boost from MAGA billionaire Peter Thiel, who has aggressively financed teams of messengers to falsely claim that hormonal birth control "tricked our bodies into dysfunction and pain." Doctors report that the tidal wave of misinformation about birth control is creating a health care crisis, including women who "come in for abortions after believing what they see on social media about the dangers of hormonal birth control." 

Female empowerment is anathema to many on the far right. And the right to control one's body is part of that empowerment.

At heart, Republicans are anti-freedom.

Of course, the real reason MAGA leaders don't like birth control is they oppose the freedom and opportunities that it has afforded women. Kirk barely bothers to hide that this is his real agenda. In the very same talk, he also tries to threaten women who hold out for Mr. Right instead of settling for Mr. Incel: "In their early 30's they get really upset because they say the boys don't want to date me anymore because they're not at their prime," he claims, echoing the unevidenced revenge fantasy that dominates misogynist message boards. 

Roe v. Wade had been the law of the land for over 49 years until the Trump-Bush Supreme Court rescinded it in 2022.

Birth control medications have been around since 1960. Despite that 64 year precedent, don't think that Republicans won't try to find some way to ban them if given a chance.

[thepro-lifemovement]

hi!! i’ve seen your blog for years, and you seem to be one of the more popular pro-life blogs around. i was wondering if you have any posts about your views on accessibility to contraception/sex ed and how those relate to abortion.

Hello, friend!

My personal views on contraception may differ from others in the pro-life movement. I can say the Pro-Life movement does not advocate prohibiting the use of non-abortive contraceptives. When it comes to birth controls, you have to be careful with ones that are abortifacients. Students for life explains which contraceptives are abortifacients and which aren't:

I agree with SFLA when they say, "Contraception can give women a false sense of security, and condoms and birth control clearly can’t be relied on as fail-proof methods of stopping a pregnancy from occurring." If you read their website I linked above, they have a section on birth control and how it relates to abortion. I also found this scientific article that discusses the possible relationship between abortion and contraception. The author includes other studies that show trends with increased use of contraception in a population and an increase of abortions. Of course this doesn't necessarily mean the two are related.

If you want to see any posts from others in the pro-life movement on contraception, I have it tagged here. I personally believe fertility awareness is very important and there would be less unexpected pregnancies if women were more aware of what their cycle means. I have met so many women in their late 20s who were never taught about what your cervical mucus (vaginal discharge) means, how to tell when you're fertile, or how to track your period. Being able to consistently track your cycle really helps you understand your body and if there's something wrong with your reproductive health.

Our public school sex education fails to teach young women about their cycle and how to track fertility and I think that has lead to a lot of unintended pregnancies, which leads to more abortions. If women could recognize that "hey, my discharge is really stretchy and clear, I am probably ovulating and fertile right now. I have an increased risk of becoming pregnant if I have sex. I should wait." Or "I am very dry today, which means I'm not fertile. I have a very low risk of pregnancy if I have sex," there would be less unintended pregnancies. I think the public school system's sex ed has failed everyone and sets teens up for failure by saying "don't have sex, but if you do, here's a condom." That's basically telling kids, "we expect you to fail." Sex ed should be teaching kids about what to expect in puberty, help them understand their hormones, and teach them about women's cycles. Parents should really be the ones teaching their kids this stuff, especially about sex and contraception, and how to handle their sexual urges and feelings. I don't think schools should be discussing sex with minors.

For posts on birth control, I have it tagged here.

If you ever want to talk to someone about birth control and accessibility to it, @she-is-a-prolife-autist is very pro accessible birth control.

I hope I was able to answer your ask. Let me know if you have any further questions.

-Sarah

[agp]

gee im sure this isnt going to be used to further justify restrictions on hormones

[999-roses]

United States v. One Package of Japanese Pessaries

the courts ruled against the US btw. & then ruled against the US AGAIN on appeal

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Jessica Valenti at Abortion, Every Day:

I was all set to publish a normal daily report today when I came across two bits of news: Idaho Republicans are back in federal court fighting for the right to deny women life-saving abortions, and South Carolina lawmakers have reintroduced legislation to make abortion punishable by the death penalty. Considering this comes at the same time that politicians are disbanding or tampering with maternal mortality committees in order to cover up the fact that their bans kill women, it seemed like the right moment to take a step back and acknowledge how absolutely fucking crazy this is.

They’re killing us, and we’re meant to behave as if it’s business as usual.

Anti-abortion politicians and activists have demonstrated again and again that they believe women’s lives are expendable—worthless, really, if not for our reproductive ability. Yet we’re expected to sit here and react to that violence as if it’s simply politics. As if it’s perfectly fine that our suffering and deaths are being debated in statehouses and courtrooms as if we’re not human beings, but thought exercises and legal arguments. That’s the hardest thing about doing this work. As difficult as it is to comb through the onslaught of awful abortion rights news every day, the real horror is the normalization. Because truly, how is it possible that there isn’t one single headline or news article about the South Carolina bill that could punish abortion patients with the death penalty? Is that how little our lives rate? It’s not as if reporters didn’t know the legislation was coming; Republicans have introduced this bill before. In fact, last year two dozen lawmakers co-sponsored the ‘Equal Protection Act��—a bill that doesn’t only classify abortion as a homicide, but defines personhood as beginning at fertilization.

That means conservatives who believe emergency contraception and IUDs stop the implantation of a fertilized egg could argue that these common forms of birth control are actually abortions. In other words, birth control could be punishable by the death penalty. Still, not a peep from mainstream media outlets. As if such legislation should just be expected. Similarly, the legal fight over emergency abortions only warranted three headlines today, from CNN, the Associated Press and Newsweek. We’re talking about a case that could determine whether states can legally deny women life-saving abortions in hospital emergency rooms. That’s a front-page story—an issue that deserves coverage in every publication across the country. Instead, we got a few obligatory paragraphs in a handful of outlets.

For those who need a reminder, this case revolves around the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA)—a federal law that requires hospitals to provide life-saving emergency care, including abortions. In 2022, the Biden administration sued Idaho, arguing that the state’s abortion ban prevents doctors from following EMTALA. By the time the suit reached the Supreme Court, we heard about doctors having to airlift women out of Idaho for emergency care, and a medical system so broken that OBGYNs were advising pregnant patients to get extra life insurance. Still, Idaho Republicans defended the law and pooh-poohed concerns about patients’ lives. At one point American women were put in the surreal position of watching the nation’s highest court debate just how many organs are acceptable for them to lose before the state should be required to provide an abortion. In the end, the Supreme Court didn’t issue a ruling on the merits but kicked the case back to a lower court. That’s where it is now, with the Ninth Circuit—where we’ll have to listen to lawyers debate our lives like bullet points all over again.

[...] We need to say it constantly and consistently, online and off: This is as bad as it seems. They are as unhinged and cruel as they seem. And no amount of calling themselves ‘pro-life’—or trying to normalize this horror—will ever hide the truth. They’re killing us, and we won’t let America forget it.

Jessica Valenti wrote this solid piece in her Abortion, Every Day blog about how abortion bans kill women and how unhinged the anti-abortion movement is.

[satorugojowidow]

What should every feminist drawing about? What is the universal icon? The first problem is to believe that the feminist movement and political experience that comes from it, is homogenous. Is also wrong to take uterus art as celebration of motherhood in patriarchal terms and even worse, like a transphobic act. Is wrong to ignore the experience of woman regarding rape, birth control, abortion, menstruation and genital mutilation. Women giving new meanings and (re)understanding their body in a different optic is a legitimate experience, not a transphobic act. People with uterus (female or male or gnc) interact with this organ in many different ways, it means different things for indigenous women or for a trans male, one experience doesn’t deny the other. As op say, the uterus is an organ that has been objectified for the purposes of reproduction, something that has oppressed female and other identities of people with uterus. Let these people sublimate their experience with that organ in art as they want. Let people to express in art what they want without act as police, let indigenous woman to reconnect with their body at the light of their ancestral knowledge, let the people that has feel pain with their uterus and menstruation to express the complicated relationship with a body part that they want to rip off, let people to think in themselves freely. Let people create a “feminist art” that is multiple. Uterus has been a “curse” for many people, some people are trying to understand it in a different way. let them be, at the end of the day, they still have to live with it, in their body that is, like indigenous women of the south says, “a territory”.

im so tired of "feminist" art revolving around uteruses and shit like regardless of how transphobic it is it's just completely trite and unimaginative

[brsb4hls]

Went to a poetry slam yesterday and the depressed bisexual 22 yo woman won.

For tearing apart capitalism and our part in it.

Amazing experience, 10/10.

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

More on Trump's statement on banning contraception

Earlier this week, Trump said he was considering restricting contraception and emphasized that states could make their own choice about the legality of contraception. Hours later, he tried to walk back his statement, saying that the GOP would never ban contraception.

As Trump was claiming that the GOP would never ban contraception, Virginia governor Glenn Youngkin vetoed a bill that would have guaranteed Virginians access to contraception. The bill vetoed by Youngkin said that “health care providers have a right to prescribe contraceptives and that people have a right to obtain them.” See Virginia Mercury, Youngkin vetoes bills on contraception access.

So, Governor Youngkin doesn’t believe that “people have a right to obtain contraception.”

Oh, and when the House GOP caucus introduced its proposed budget priorities for 2024, guess what it said about contraception? Yep! Their bill would “gut funding” for contraception for low income and uninsured women. See House Republicans Endorse a National Abortion Ban with Zero Exceptions in Latest Budget | The White House

Here’s the point: Don’t believe Republican double-talk about not banning contraception. You can’t believe a word they say. You can’t believe Donald Trump. You can’t believe Nikki Haley. You can’t believe Glenn Youngkin.

[Robert B. Hubbell Newsletter]