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Will Republicans Restrict Birth Control in 2025?
Trump says: ‘We’re looking at that.’ Maybe he isn’t, but others are.
Yesterday, a reporter for KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh asked Donald Trump: “Do you support any restrictions on a person’s right to contraception?”
He responded: “We’re looking at that and I’m going to have a policy on that very shortly.” Prompted to say more, he added that “some states are going to have different policy than others” and yet his federal policy would be “very comprehensive.”
Later, he posted to Truth Social: He “has never and will never” attempt to restrict birth control.
Funny, that, because Project 2025 has some ideas about what health insurance plans should be required to cover. Of course, that in itself doesn’t mean that birth control would be illegal; it only means that some people would have to pay for it out-of-pocket. But it does give a sense of the Republicans’ interest in limiting access to birth control — all the more important after the fall of Roe v. Wade has made abortion inaccessible to some people.
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