Anti-choice advocate admits to Joy Reid her ultimate goal is to make birth control illegal:
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“You think IUDs should be illegal?” Reid pressed.
“I don’t think they should be legal, “Hawkins replied. “They put women at risk and they kill children.”
“What about the birth control pill?” the unrelenting Reid asked.
“I do not think it should be legal, I think that shouldn’t be legal,” Hawkins replied before trying to change the subject.
“Kristan, Kristan, Kristan,” Reid said holding up her hand. “I just want clarity. You think that the pill and the IUD should be illegal, right?”
“In my ideal world, yes,” Hawkins stated. “But I don’t think that’s something we’re working towards in the pro-life movement. In the pro-life movement we’re working towards abolishing abortion. That’s why we want Planned Parenthood’s money to go to health centers which don’t do contraception.”
“We’ve gotten some real clarity,” Reid said as she concluded the interview. “I think the American people have gotten quite a bit of clarity on what your movement wants to do.”
Margaret Sanger is rolling in her grave. The fight is never over. Now we will have to fight for birth control. Basic birth control. Do not take anything for granted. Fight for it.
What. The. FUCK???
Reproduction freedom is economic freedom…and well….just basic freedom…Everything people with uteruses do is tied to whether or not we have kids. I couldnt be doing what I want in life if I was constantly knocked up. I couldnt have my job, the ability to travel and see new things, to partake in the economy, to even just sleep in or enjoy my hobbies. All these things I mentioned are my choice, and I have every right to them. Every human has the right to choose their own path in life. Birth control, and easy affordable access to it, is basic freedom. Keep this in mind if u ever think its not a big deal. This is my life. Its not a fucking game. This is basic human rights.
If our right to access to safe and legal abortion is taken away, you can bet that the next step is taking away our right to birth control.
We have always had to fight for birth control.
“Pro-life” as a movement has always been against contraception. It’s not that they can’t tell the difference between contraception and abortion - it’s that they don’t care there’s a difference.
The movement’s aim has always been to end the ability to choose pregnancy and to limit medical options. That is where it originated and where it has stayed this entire time, throughout history.
That’s what made abortion illegal in the first place - along with birth control, along with sex education, along with many patient rights to discuss sexual and reproductive health needs, along with scientific freedom to research into sexuality and sexual health, along with being allowed to learn or teach anything about preventing pregnancy or STIs.
It was indecent. It was sacrilegious. It was hedonistic. It was just all around immoral and awful for this information and medicine to exist. Whorephobia and misogyny were rampant and powerful, and called on racism, xenophobia, homophobia, and classism to help put an end to all this obscene nonsense.
It has always been this way, it has always been this way.
- mod BP
I read an essay ages ago a woman who’d been in the pro-life movement heavily in college, who learned that most people higher-up in the pro-life movement are also anti-contraception, and she was shocked.
It’s been my experience that most sane pro-lifers are fine with contraception (for instance: my parents, who made sure I was on the pill when I got my first serious boyfriend). But the people who run large pro-life organizations are often strict Catholics and/or members of patriarchal (aka “quiverfull”) Christianity that believe all contraception is wrong.
I think the essay you’re thinking of is this post by Libby Anne on Love, Joy, Feminism. Even if it’s not it’s a really good read.