59 years ago today, Griswold v. Connecticut guaranteed the right to birth control.
Justice Thomas says the Supreme Court should "reconsider" that ruling.
And this week, 38 GOP senators voted against the Right to Contraception Act.
Republicans are coming for birth control.
Which has been the plan from Day 1. I think my friends and family got sick of me warning people about this for at least 20 years now.
So many people still don’t believe the goal is outlawing birth control.
Yes, it has. And it wouldn’t hurt if people learned how few rights women had as recently as 100 years ago. We don’t teach these things and we should!
My grandmothers were born in the 1890s. I wish they were around to tell people about it.
saving women from the 'Morality Police' of ME countries was a big thing before.
But that was probably just envy at the control those 'other' religions have over their followers.
They are coming for birth control, a woman's right to vote, blacks, immigrants, LGBT.
They're working on everything except legislation for the American people.
They don’t care about pregnancy complications or endometriosis. They’re scared shitless of whites not being a majority demographic and will do anything to shore up the white birthrate.
FWIW, birth control isn’t the gold standard for endo. It would be lovely if they trained surgeons to do adequate excisions that let women live medication- AND pain-free. But they obviously won’t.
~20% of women have endo, and they can’t even properly diagnose it without cutting people open. 😩
Tamer Seckin, who founded the Endometriosis Foundation of America, supports the laparoscopic removal of endometrial implants by a highly trained surgeon as the gold standard for treatment. Birth control can sometimes manage symptoms. Even a hysterectomy doesn’t cure endo if implants remain.
It's exhausting that we have to keep fighting the same fights. We were fighting for birth control and abortion rights during the Reagan administration.
when I got mine done, I got ZERO of the restistance women get when wanting a tubal ligation.
The Right thinks women are a resource, and other men are competitors for that resource. To their mind, I was doing them a solid.
Why would anyone in their right mind want to banish birth control? Are they really saying no one should enjoy sex unless they are reproducing? Are they all nuts?
I worked in Paris in the late '90s. My office building had unisex toilets. Not single occupancy, though there were stalls and no urinals.
It's a perfectly reasonable idea, though I admit I've been some places & around some people where I'd pee in the bushes or court a UTI before using the restroom.
