SiX in the Press: Will Birth Control Be Banned During Trump’s Second Term? Experts Explain Future Access
Jennifer Driver, the senior director of reproductive rights at State Innovation Exchange, says that “nothing is off the table” with birth control access. She notes that when Roe v. Wade was overturned in 2022, Justice Clarence Thomas wrote in a concurring opinion that the Supreme Court “should reconsider” its past rulings codifying rights to contraception access and same-sex marriage.
“That was a signaling of birth control being at risk,” she says. “There have also been attempts at state houses of conflating birth control to the abortion pill or calling birth control ‘abortifacients.’”