Will SCOTUS roll back Contraceptive Rights in 2025?

In short, the answer is likely yes.

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear a case this term that could mark the beginning of the first nationwide rollback on contraception rights in the era of President Donald Trump. According to Susan Rinkunas of the Democracy Docket, this issue didn’t get much airtime during the chaotic 2024 campaign, but birth control has been in conservatives’ crosshairs for years.

On Jan. 10, the justices agreed to hear Braidwood v. Becerra, in which a group of conservative Texas employers who object to paying for birth control and pre-exposure prophylaxis for HIV argue that the Affordable Care Act can’t require preventive services be covered without copays.

A ruling for the plaintiffs could mean employers and insurers reimposing copays and deductibles, or denying birth control coverage entirely, with patients on the hook for the full price. This would result in fewer people having access to the contraceptive method of their choice, including IUDs. IUD's alone cost hundreds of dollars additional to the price of the office visit for insertion. While an over-the-counter birth control pill hit stores last year, people deserve options and that OTC option is not affordable for everyone.

We need to be prepared that this right-wing SCOTUS is likely to rule in the plantiff's favor, thereby limiting access to birth control nationwide. Remember, this is all part of the far-right's effort to increase the birth rate (specifically the CAUCASIAN birth rate) in order to populate their workforce and create their preferred blond-haired, blue-eyed, cisgendered, Aryan race. Since we know that the Right does not care about taking care of, feeding, clothing, educating them, or giving them services-- it is strictly about maximizing their own profits or furthering their fascist agenda. We need to be prepared to fight in order not to be dragged back to the 1930's.

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In the words of the great Joyce Vance-- we are in this together,

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