Salon recently published “The Battle to ban Birth Control” by Priya Jain, which is informative in and of itself, and also contains some useful links. Below is a short excerpt, but you can read the whole thing here:
“…the anti-birth-control movement’s efforts are making a significant political impact: Supporters have pressured insurance companies to refuse coverage of contraception, lobbied for “conscience clause” laws to protect pharmacists from having to dispense birth control, and are redefining the very meaning of pregnancy to classify certain contraceptive methods as abortion. In increasing numbers, women and men opposed to contraception are marshaling health facts and figures to bolster their convictions that sex for anything but procreation is morally wrong and potentially deadly. Although its medical arguments are really just thinly veiled moral and religious arguments, using findings that are biased and unfounded, the rising anti-contraception movement, echoed by the Catholic Church, is making significant inroads. Leaders of the pro-choice movement know it, are worried about it, and realize they can’t take it lightly, as they mount their own strategies to battle it.
“It is very hard to awaken people to the threat,” says Gloria Feldt, the former president of Planned Parenthood, “because who can believe that something so accessible can be at risk? But that’s what [people] said when they started attacking Roe, and now look at how close we are to losing Roe.” …
