ACTIONS YOU CAN TAKE NOW TO PROTECT YOUR RIGHT TO FAMILY PLANNING CHOICE
Get informed on the Issues
Follow Planned Parenthood on Birth Control Issues. Sign up for action opportunities.
Read the League of Women Voters on the Right to Contraception.
Get Fact-Based Information on Birth Control from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.
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Know Your State Legislators and how to contact them.
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Talk to Friends and Family
Be a grass roots advocate for family planning choice.
Explain what's at stake for all families.
Many of the members of Citizens Resisting Tyranny are adult sons and daughters of the Greatest Generation; we have children, grandchildren, and even great grandchildren, and we care about the future of our families - and yours!
Our generation fought hard for the principle that family planning choice is a fundamental right, and we want to pass on that legacy to you.
Conservatives have family planning choice in their cross hairs; their attack on abortion is just getting started. Conservatives are going after ALL forms of birth control, including birth control pills, IUDs, vasectomy, emergency contraception, and even condoms.
Judges?
Politicians?
Conservative think tanks?
Right-wing influencers?
Religious extremists?
Shouldn't YOU control your family planning choices?
Despite overwhelming public support for access to a wide range of birth control methods, conservatives and their allies want to control and limit your choices.
The conservative majority on the U.S. Supreme Court can't be trusted to protect your reproductive rights.
Learn why in this 2025 National Women's Law Center article commemorating the 60th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Griswold v. Connecticut (family planning decisions protected as a privacy right).
The conservative majority on the NC Supreme Court will not protect your reproductive rights.
The Chief Justice of the NC Supreme Court is a religious extremist who believes that God speaks directly to him. Judge Newby believes that "life begins at conception," which dictates his views on reproductive rights. Read about his views, and his campaign to gain and retain control of the North Carolina court system, in this Pro Publica article How Paul Newby Made North Carolina a Blueprint for Conservative Courts
Conservatives have worked hard to defund Planned Parenthood, cut back Medicaid funding, and reduce insurance coverage of all forms of reproductive health care - not just abortion.
These efforts reduce the availability of reproductive health care services to everyone, by making all forms of birth control more expensive and harder to find.
Right-wing think tanks are running the plays on reproductive rights - Project 2025 has made great strides in implementing its extreme conservative goals.
The Reproductive Freedom for All site explains how The Heritage Foundation is aiming for your access to family planning resources. Their latest angle: the radical and unscientific idea that birth control pills are hazardous not only to those who take them, but to the public at large.
Conservatives are pushing the Department of Health and Human Services to adopt restrictive policies to limit access to birth control.
The Center for Reproductive Rights outlines the actions that DHHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has taken and may take in the future to limit access to birth control.