It's time to set the record straight on birth control [View all]

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.

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