Birth Control Under Threat: How Birth Control Rights and Access Are Being Undermined Since Roe v. Wade Was Overturned

PhoenixMay 18, 2026

In June 2022, the National Women’s Law Center published “Don’t Be Fooled: Birth Control Is Already at Risk,” the first comprehensive accounting of policymakers’ attacks on birth control in recent years.¹ In addition to identifying the range of ways anti-reproductive health lawmakers were already threatening birth control, the Law Center warned that attacks on birth control would only escalate if the Supreme Court overturned the right to abortion. Unfortunately, those were prescient warnings.

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