JD Vance and the return of the birth control battle
The Boston Globe, January 20, 2025

Who in conscience would want to take away what few medical safeguards there are?
Like many women, I've had more pregnancies than I have children. While I have relied on various forms of contraception, it has failed me three times. Why am I telling you this? Because my own fate and that of all women — and therefore the fate of the world — is defined by the reliability, or not, of our reproductive systems. And as a woman who has both chosen and been deceived by the ultimate fallibility of my contraceptives, I know I'm not alone in recognizing that, with the recent election, our odds of access to them just got diminished.
A condom is only an entry-level way to trust hope over experience, and while it's more uncommon to have an IUD dislodge, what are the chances that the ultimate protection of a tubal ligation could yield a pregnancy? Ask me. I can also tell you what it's like to lose that baby on the delivery table. And how, after laboring in vain, my two other children were given life by urgent surgical intervention. My point is that these failures are not rare. In other words, when a woman's body is already accustomed to sustaining both grief and joy in states of emergency, who in conscience would want to take away what few medical safeguards there are? Enter JD Vance.
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