Despite overwhelming public support for access to a wide range of birth control methods, conservatives and their allies want to control and limit your choices. Their ambition extends well beyond limiting access to abortion:
- In the guise of limiting access to abortion they erecting barriers to an increasing array of birth control options, including the most widely used method – birth control pills.
- They are proliferating misleading, unscientific information to to promote methods proven to be much less effective.
- They are limiting access to reproductive health care options and in the process, they are endangering women’s lives.
ACTIONS YOU CAN TAKE RIGHT NOW
Be informed
- Follow our page, “This Week in Birth Control” for timely developments .
- Read:
- Guttmacher Institute on attacks on contraceptive access.
- How access to contraception positively impacts women’s lives at the individual and family levels.
- Planned Parenthood on attacks on your right to contraception and reproductive health care.
- League of Women Voters on the Right to Contraception.
Be Heard
- Ask your elected representatives to support legislation guaranteeing the right to contraception.
- Know Your Federal Representatives and how to contact them.
- Know Your State Legislators and how to contact them.
Prepare to Vote
The 2026 Midterm Elections take place in November. Make sure now that your NC voter registration is up to date via the NCSBE Voter Search tool: NC State Board of Elections
Spread the Word
- Be an influencer for family planning choice – post on social media.
- Talk to friends and family – explain what’s at stake for all families.
- Are you in the Zip 27703 area of North Carolina?
- Help Citizens Resisting Tyranny do literature drops in or near your neighborhood.
- See our Contact Page to get in touch.
Birth control choice is life choice.
Many of the members of Citizens Resisting Tyranny are sons and daughters of the Greatest Generation; we have children, grandchildren, and even great grandchildren, and we care about the future of our families – and yours!
Our generation fought hard for the principle that family planning choice is a fundamental right, and we want to pass on that legacy to you.
Who will control your family planning choices?
Judges?
The conservative majority on the U.S. Supreme Court can’t be trusted to protect your reproductive rights. Learn why in this 2025 National Women’s Law Center article commemorating the 60th anniversary of the ruling that family planning decisions are protected as a privacy right.
The conservative majority on the NC Supreme Court will not protect your reproductive rights. Read about How Paul Newby Made North Carolina a Blueprint for Conservative Courts. Chief Justice Newby is a religious extremist who believes that God speaks directly to him. He believes that “life begins at conception,” which dictates his views on reproductive rights.
Conservative think tanks?
The Reproductive Freedom for All site explains how the right-wing Heritage Foundation is aiming for your access to family planning resources. Their latest angle: the radical and unscientific idea that birth control pills are hazardous not only to those who take them, but to the public at large. Read our Substack post about how Conservatives want to force you to have more children – whether you like it or not!
Unqualified Political Appointees?
Conservatives are pushing the Department of Health and Human Services to adopt restrictive policies to limit access to birth control.The Center for Reproductive Rights outlines the actions that DHHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has taken and may take in the future to limit access to birth control.