Originally published at: 3 Years After The Supreme Court Restricted Abortion Access, Contraception Is Also At Risk
This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. It was originally published at The Conversation. On June 24, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization eliminated a nearly 50-year constitutional right to abortion and returned the authority to regulate abortion to the states. The Dobbs…
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I was in college when the pill became available and had listened to my mother and mother-in-law tell horror stories about the lack of reliable and accessible contraception and what it led to, especially during the Great Depression. The pill changed women’s lives. And saved many women’s lives.
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I place primary blame on Mitch McConnell for his corrupt court packing antics that has resulted in this corrupt, biased Supreme Court.
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My husband had a cute story about the Illinois-Wisconsin state line. College age guys would meet there to swap condoms for beer and vice versa because beer was easy to get in Wisconsin but condoms were illegal there and the reverse was true in Illinois.
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And he full well knew what Trump was all about. McConnell was the worst (or best) example of party before conscience.
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I never saw evidence that McConnell had a conscience.
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No disagreement here.
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These bastards really hate women.
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Consider the recent removal of politics and marital status from the VA antidiscrimination guidelines. I imagine this opens the door for medical facilities to deny contraceptives to unmarried women. That used to happen quite often.
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My father, (born in 1916) had 5 sisters and one brother. One sister never had children, his brother had 3 and my dad had 5. The remaining four sisters had 8, 9, 10, and 10 children. There were efforts made to enact some limits, but “natural family planning” didn’t work any better then than now. My mom’s cousin (no sibs) had 11 children, but they were thrilled with every new arrival (of the 11, one had 4 kids and everyone else had 0-3).
Woman today are unlikely to be willing to go back to the 1940s and 50s. Reproductive age women today were born well after birth control became legal. They are probably just figuring out what lack of available contraception will mean to them. When it sinks in, I expect politicians who support unlimited fertility with abstinence as the only option will have something to say about it. Unfortunately, by then it might be too late and the fight for birth control may have to start all over again.
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TL/DR SC Decisions: 'Keep ‘em barefoot n prignent’
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I believe they love women who spread their legs and shut their mouths.
That brings to mind the old riddle:
Q: What do you call women who rely on the rhythm method for birth control?
A: Mommy.
A friend of mine tells this story on himself. During his freshman year of college in the early 1960s, he and his girlfriend were both very hot to trot. He said they didn’t because they both knew that they didn’t know enough to be sure they could avoid pregnancy. (The first oral contraceptive was approved by the FDA in 1960, but usage ramped up fairly slowly, especially among young women.)
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Without consequences that’s just adorable.
IIRC at least in some states you had to be married to get a prescription from a doctor.
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In my lifetime, and in the lifetimes of many here, condoms were sold literally from under the counter. Until Griswold, they were illegal in some states.
Banning contraception at my age, does me no direct harm, but I’m disturbed by the thought of citizens being prosecuted for using it.
I didn’t predict this, but I won’t be shocked if freaks like Alito turn the use of contraception into a felony – and do it gleefully.
The worldview of men like Alito is identical to the one that drove the Salem Witch Trial. Not a dime’s difference.
Getting into your boudoir? They’re coming.
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Many decades ago, people needed children for the farm and to take care of the aged parents. It’s no wonder they treated women like brood sows. Alas, the view still exists among these religious freaks on the Sup Ct.
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