Far-right conservatives are sowing misinformation that inaccurately characterizes IUDs, emergency contraception, even birth-control pills as causing abortions

  • bolexforsoup@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    341·
    6 months ago

    Why would they let the truth stop them when they stole the Supreme Court and can just do what they want with near-impunity now?

    The rulings this month are going to be bad, folks. And if you aren’t worried about the national level issues, take a look at what’s going on the gulf south. It’s wild west/medieval shit down here.

    Louisiana just brought back chemical allows for surgical castration as a sentence for pedophiles. And what group do they call groomers more than any other? I’ll give you a hint: there’s a reason they continue to attack drag queens and the trans community.

  • skulblaka@startrek.website
    28·
    6 months ago

    “Could threaten access” what a shit headline. They are already actively denying access in their controlled areas. This isn’t a problem that’s forming, this is a problem that is already here and already large.

  • Nougat@fedia.io
    13·
    6 months ago

    Not even two years since Dobbs. “Oh, no, no - there’s no threat to contraception” they said.

  • BarqsHasBite@lemmy.world
    12·
    6 months ago

    Republican lawmakers in Missouri blocked a bill to widen access to birth-control pills by falsely claiming they induce abortions. An antiabortion group in Louisiana killed legislation to enshrine a right to birth control by inaccurately equating emergency contraception with abortion drugs. An Idaho think tank focused on “biblical activism” is pushing state legislators to ban access to emergency contraception and intrauterine devices (IUDs) by mislabeling them as “abortifacients.”

      • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        6 months ago

        Indeed. The idea that a group doing “biblical activism” has any impact on others in a secular nation is horrifying. Not everyone is in their little book club, and not even all the people in their book club interpret it the same way.

        If you are someone in their little group, don’t get an abortion. Or contraception. And leave everyone else alone.

  • masquenox@lemmy.world
    111·
    6 months ago

    Conservative attacks on birth control could threaten access

    Do they mean… apart from all the access they’ve already threatened?

    Sounds like they got somebody from the “Treat-Israel-With-Kid-Gloves” department to write that headline.

  • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    6 months ago

    Remember how the far right trolls, along with not a few Enlightened Centrists ™, were telling everyone to just CALM DOWN in the wake of the 2022 decision by Trollito and friends on the corrupted court?