The Trump Administration Is Coming After Birth Control Access in a Terrifying New Way

Comment: In this OpEd in The New York Times (paywalled) the author decries the new administration guidelines on the Title X family planning and reproductive health care program. She details provisions that turn Title X from a highly successful program that reduced unwanted pregnancies (and correspondingly prevented millions of abortions), to a Project 2025-based program for increasing birthrates at any cost.

April 20, 2026 – The New York Times- Jill Filipovic – Link

Excerpt: “Not satisfied with the end of legal abortion in America, the anti-abortion movement seems poised to end the era of affordable contraception. The result isn’t just the end of Title X as we knew it. It’s the demise of a long-held bipartisan consensus that a woman’s ability to shape her own future, even if she was poor, was worth something — and certainly worth the government’s investment.”

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