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UNDERSTANDING THE GOP'S OPPOSITION TO A FEDERAL LAW PROTECTING THE RIGHT TO USE BIRTH CONTROL
The above reasoning also lies behind the Republican Party’s opposition to a federal law confirming the right to use contraceptives.
When the U.S. Supreme Court decided to erase abortion rights, it also undercut the constitutional foundation of earlier decisions on an individual’s right to use birth control. To confirm that right, Democrats are trying to bring to a vote in Congress a proposed law that would create a federal statutory right to use contraception. Republicans say no.
Why? First, because Catholic bishops and other religious fundamentalists are against birth control — and think everyone should be bound by their religious views. The G.O.P. shares their desire for a theocracy.
Second, because some forms of birth control, notably the IUD, can prevent conception by preventing a fertilized egg from being implanted. If it is your religious view that fertilized eggs are “unborn children,” then keeping that egg from attaching to the uterus is child murder. That view is enshrined in law in many states.
The irony, of course, is that more access to birth control means fewer abortions. But when you believe God has whispered truth into your ears, and yours alone, reason has no impact.