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GOP wants fewer abortions. Dems want fewer unplanned pregnancies. Free Birth Control?! Village 6-28 [1]
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Date: 2023-06-28
Free Birth Control for All seems like such an obvious answer.
To us, Dems.
98% of sexually active women in the United States have used birth control at some point in time, and 62% of those of reproductive age are currently using birth control.
6 Things You Should Know About Birth Control There are more than 15 methods of birth control…
Birth control can help with more than preventing pregnancy Some birth control options provide relief from symptoms of painful heavy periods and can even help with acne. Some benefits of the birth control pill are:
Lighter, more regular periods
Fewer menstrual cramps
Lower risk of ectopic pregnancy
You can safely use birth control to skip your period...
Only 2 types of birth control methods that can protect you from STIs, including HIV..
You can use some forms of birth control as emergency contraception…
Birth control is safe… See full article: www.plannedparenthood.org/...
More facts that apparently only Dems know.
Access to birth control improves the health of women and their families. There’s a reason birth control was included as preventive health care [in the ACA]— a panel of doctors recommended it. The nonpartisan Institute of Medicine (IOM) recommended that birth control be covered as women’s preventive care because it is fundamental to improving not only women’s health, but the health of their families as well. Medical research has demonstrated this fact for decades. Improved access to birth control is directly linked to declines in maternal and infant mortality. Birth control has had a profound and positive impact on women’s lives. According to a Guttmacher study, a majority of women say birth control allowed them to take better care of themselves or their families (63%), support themselves financially (56%), complete their education (51%), or keep or get a job (50%). People struggle with the cost of birth control. This is not just a health issue, it’s an economic issue. The cost of birth control, with or without insurance, can take a toll on a person’s bank account. More than a third of female voters have struggled to afford prescription birth control at some point in their lives, and as a result, used birth control inconsistently www.plannedparenthoodaction.org/...
Even Boebert agrees that the cost of birth control can lead to negative consequences.
x Boebert: 'Cheaper to Have a Kid' Than Take Expensive Birth Control
https://t.co/R4iX72ebbz — Crystal Cardona (@CrystalCardona3) June 25, 2023
x Religious right GOP is against birth control education for teens, leading to a cycle of teen pregnancies. It's okay when it's their kids but they condemn poor, non-white kids for the same thing.
Lauren Boebert Is a Grandmother: Teenage Son Fathers Baby Boy
https://t.co/uBhFADu1eX — Janice Jhana Elks🇺🇸🇺🇦 (@OMAHAGEMGIRL) June 23, 2023
See, if we had free birth control, we’d have fewer Boeberts altogether.
So, you’d think all Republicans would agree, right?
No.
x Birth Control Is Next
https://t.co/wm0uOElsEI @slate — Fallopia Tuba 💙Everybody Say Gay💙 BlueCrew (@franklanguage) April 22, 2023
In other words, counter to a refrain that has taken hold on the left since the overturning of Roe v. Wade, conservatives are not coming for birth control next. They’re coming for birth control now. Some corners of the right are already in full-blown attack mode. Pulse Life Advocates, one of the Iowa-based anti-abortion groups that is advocating against the over-the-counter contraception bill, states on its website that “contraception kills babies.” It’s relatively uncommon for an anti-abortion group to state its animus toward birth control so plainly. For years, the major players on the anti-abortion right have claimed to support contraception. They seem to understand that more than 90 percent of Americans are in favor of legal birth control and that most people opposed to abortion likely see contraception as an effective means of reducing demand for it. slate.com/...
And when Congressional Dems try to protect birth control, the GOP fights it. Srsly.
Congress has an obligation to fulfill its duty to protect the rights of Americans – from marriage equality to civil rights and worker safety,” said Senator Markey. “Yet, today, when I asked Republicans for the second time to stand up for the right to contraception – a policy that a vast majority of Americans support – they said no. Each and every Republican who refused to protect the right to contraception told Americans loud and clear that they’re willing to risk the health of millions of Americans for politics. It is time for them to get out of the doctor’s office and start representing the American people. As the Supreme Court and extremist Republicans hack away at our rights, we cannot and will not give up. I will continue to fight to pass the Right to Contraception Act. -Ed Markey
x The Right to Contraception Act (S. 1999)—which would codify the right to access and use contraceptives, and healthcare professionals' ability to provide birth control—was proposed by Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and blocked by Sen. Mike Braun (R-Ind.).
https://t.co/iIF4Daic0o — Nancy Bordier (@NancyBordier) June 26, 2023
Clarence Thomas showed us his cards. He doesn’t think Dobbs was harsh enough.
x Last year, Justice Thomas got himself a drastic expansion of the 2nd Amendment for his birthday. His gift this year was an anti-contraception easter egg
https://t.co/p2SCWicPNt — Susan Rinkunas (NEW ACCT) (@SusanRinkunas) June 23, 2023
I wish to God the GOP was “pro-life”. Instead they have a fetal fetish.
x IF the Republican Party were truly ‘pro-life’, they would be pro- birth control AND implement programs to assist pregnant women throughout their pregnancies AND beyond (in all 50 states), WHICH they do not.
I rest my case.
https://t.co/HJfPE9znoA — Witch Hunter (@ThirdChances) June 25, 2023
I don’t want a Medicaid for All fight right now. That’s not the issue in this poll.
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