Court’s Contraception Ruling Is a Scary Sign of What May Come

A Fifth Circuit ruling upholding a Texas law that requires parental consent for under-age teens to access contraception gives validity to the argument that Republicans don’t know when to stop.

Emboldened by the conservative majority on the U.S. Supreme Court overturning Roe, conservative activists will keep pushing to curtail contraception cloaking it in the guise of parental concern for children.

For most Americans, this is a bridge too far. For the true believers, it’s a goal that they believe is within reach. Clarence Thomas, the longest serving justice on the Supreme Court, signaled after Roe fell that the right to contraception should be re-evaluated along with the right to same sex marriage.

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