Yes, America: Republicans Are Going To Attempt to Ban Contraception (and Everything Else Griswold-Related)

[Webster]

Yes Virginia, They’re Coming For Birth Control - Digby's Hullabaloo

Those of us who've been writing about the right wing assault on women's autonomy and reproductive rights for years have always said that contraception was on the menu. How can it not be? We know these people don't actually care about babies or they wouldn't be against helping poor mothers care...

digbysblog.net

[As Cooper points out the Republican Senators really don’t want to take the heat for denying birth control access. Why should they? They have the courts to do that for them: In his concurrence in the Dobbs decision, Clarence Thomas took aim at Griswold v. Connecticut, which legalized contraceptive use among married couples. Since Roe relied on substantive due process, “we should reconsider all of this Court’s substantive due process precedents, including Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell,” he wrote, referring to decisions that legalized gay sex and marriage. ADF leader Alan Sears told The New Yorker that outright banning the pill was a reach goal. “It may be that the day will come when people say the birth-control pill was a mistake,” he said.

This is how the modern conservative policy apparatus functions. Crazed extremists decide on a terrible goal, legal spear-carriers recruit candidates for (often fraudulent) lawsuits, momentum builds, and eventually partisan hacks on the bench give their rubber stamp of approval. What was deranged lunacy five years ago is settled law today. Thomas’s opinion was a signal to ADF to gear up this process again....

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/06/24/contraception-supreme-court-clarence-thomas-griswold/

The Next Targets for the Group That Overturned Roe

Alliance Defending Freedom has won fifteen Supreme Court cases. Now it wants religious exemptions to anti-discrimination laws—and is going after trans rights.

www.newyorker.com

https://www.npr.org/2023/07/01/1185632827/web-designer-supreme-court-gay-couples

The Republican Party Is Coming for Birth Control

The insistence from GOP elites that they mean to do no such thing is a lie.

prospect.org

 

[MrDawn]

Taking away birth control is a very bad idea. So bad that it is beyond stupid. The government needs to stay out of people's personal lives. It's one of those things that is no one's business on whether or not a couple decides to have children. It shouldn't be viewed as a moral decision.