The Right Is Coming for Your Birth Control—They Just Don't Want You to Know It, Yet

By Katie McDonough

December 15, 2014 | Anti-choice conservatives want the public to believe that abortion and birth control are the same thing so that it becomes impossible to access both. But because openly going after birth control has shown itself to be a form of political death, politicians and anti-choice advocacy groups have been working to conflate contraception and abortion when it’s politically convenient. The lie is by design, and it’s working.

It’s no accident that Hobby Lobby contested the birth control requirement of the Affordable Care Act on the grounds that it believed, despite overwhelming medical evidence, that some of the contraceptives covered were abortion-inducing drugs. And that this line — that emergency contraception and IUDs end rather than prevent pregnancy — has found an audience with Supreme Court justices, politicians, media pundits and regular people.