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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDecades After Birth Control Became Legal, It's Still Controversial
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/decades-after-birth-control-became-legal-its-still-controversial-20140606Nearly a half-century after the Supreme Court legalized birth control, conservatives are still fighting to restrict access to contraception
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1. Religious hospitals and clinics
Thanks to widespread mergers with religious medical centers, as well as a growing crusade to defund and close Planned Parenthood providers, getting birth control in a clinical setting is becoming more challenging. Last April, an entire town in Oklahoma nearly lost its ability to get hormonal contraception after a new religious directive for the city's medical center required the physicians to stop offering birth control for preventing pregnancy. National blowback made the system reverse its policy, but in many physicians still find their hands tied and require patients to lie about why they want contraception.
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2. Justice Scalia's office
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is considered one of the most conservative judges on the bench, and he makes no efforts to hide that fact. He also makes no effort to hide the fact that he believes Griswold was wrongly decided. Discussing the case and how the decision hinged on the idea that married couples had a right to privacy in the bedroom, Scalia said that simply isn't constitutionally true. "There is no right to privacy. No generalized right to privacy," Scalia told Fox News when asked about Griswold during a 2012 interview.
3. The Salina, Kansas County Commissioner's office
Preventing unintended, unwanted pregnancy is usually something that the government is a fan of, since it should mean both reducing abortion numbers and health care costs and services associated with birth. Salina's county commissioners instead decided to reject grant money for an IUD program, saying IUDs are "murder."
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4. American Life League protests
To some, sex without a willingness to create life is part of the "contraceptive mentality" that threatens marriage, parenting, proper gender dynamics and our entire civilization's moral fiber. But the American Life League (ALL) cloaks its war on non-procreative sex as a medical issue. For a decade they have done that with "The Pill Kills," an annual anti-Griswold campaign online and in front of reproductive health clinics across the country. It categorizes the physical complications that ALL claims hormonal contraception instigates, including strokes, breast cancer, heart attack and death. As opposed to being pregnant and giving birth every year or two, which they apparently think has no physical impact on a person at all.
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Decades After Birth Control Became Legal, It's Still Controversial (Original Post)
xchrom
Jun 2014
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Kath1
(4,309 posts)1. If "the pill kills" a hell of a lot of us should be dead by now!
These people need to wake up and realize this is 2014, not 1814.
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)2. Kick for exposure