It's time to set the record straight on birth control

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Opinion by Danielle Campoamor

If you’re afraid contraception is on the GOP chopping block, you should be. In fact, the war on birth control is already here, and the Republicans’ battle plan relies on the same tactic that paved the way for Roe v. Wade to fall: Disinformation.

On TikTok, some right-wing commentators are erroneously claiming that birth control causes infertility (it does not). Now that women are choosing to have children later in life and either waiting longer to get married or foregoing marriage altogether, some conservatives have demonized contraception, arguing that access to birth control has, as The Washington Post notes, “altered traditional gender roles and weakened the family.”

One doctor — Michael Belmonte, an Ob-Gyn practicing in Washington, DC — told the Post he is seeing the “direct failures of this misinformation,” as he says more people from states that have passed near-total abortion bans are traveling to his practice to end unwanted pregnancies that occurred as a result of their belief in the so-called dangers of hormonal birth control.

“People are putting themselves out there as experts on birth control and speaking to things that the science does not bear out,” Belmonte said.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/opinion-time-set-record-straight-154307762.html

[Lonestarblue]

1. I read something recently (it may have been on DU) from a Republican legislator who proposes outlawing birth control.

He claimed that birth control pills are dangerous for women and cause all kinds of problems, including depression and anger. He also accused young women of using it to treat acne and their periods. Many young women have especially painful periods and indeed hormonal birth control helps them. These people are idiots if they think women will give up birth control so they can become some man’s sex slave and economic chattel.

[Redleg]

3. Viagra poses a higher risk to men than birth control pills does to women

I heard this on NPR and read it somewhere so it might well be based on empirical research instead of the feverish rantings of some incel on twitter or tiktok.

[Biophilic]

2. Why are they spewing this dangerous information?

Do they honestly believe what they are saying (in other words they are really stupid) or do they just want to be seen as important and knowledgeable? In which case, they are incredibly selfish and dishonest. Ugly people.

[Redleg]

4. Yes to all that

They only care about gaining power and thwarting the Dems. Deceit has paid off before and they believe it will pay off again.

[Biophilic]

6. They are truly awful people. Nt

[love_katz]

5. I'm so old, that I can remember when birth control was called family planning.

Why is the anti-establishment clause in the Constitution never even mentioned, let alone used to stop this glaringly obvious power grab by religious fanatics? They are incapable of giving any support for their position that doesn't come from their religious beliefs. Birth control prevents pregnancy. It is not a form of abortion. Even their opposition to abortion is based on their particular interpretation of their beliefs. They should not be allowed to force their beliefs on the rest of us.

[Ritabert]

7. I date back to the days of Vatican roulette

You couldn't get a doctor to prescribe birth control pills in the Boston area because most of the doctors were Catholic.

[Dulcinea]

8. "altered traditional gender roles and weakened the family"

That tells you everything you need to know.