Far-right conservatives are spewing dangerous misinformation about birth control pills in an attempt to limit access to contraceptives.
They falsely claim that IUDs, emergency contraception, and even birth-control pills are causing abortions.
- Republican lawmakers in Missouri blocked a bill to widen access to birth control, spreading the misinformation that they ‘induce abortions.’
- Republicans in at least 17 states have blocked largely Democratic-led attempts to pass laws assuring the right to birth control since 2022,
- Trump recently suggested in a TV interview that he was ‘open to restricting access to contraceptives,’ saying, “We’re looking at that, and I’m going to have a policy on that very shortly.” (Later, when this tack wasn’t popular, Trump flip-flopped.)
Far-right Conservatives will find this a highly unpopular stance; a 2023 Gallup Poll found that 88 percent of Americans said birth control was morally acceptable, including 86 percent of Republicans and 93 percent of Democrats.