Be informed
Get Fact-Based Information on Birth Control from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.
Read the League of Women Voters on the Right to Contraception.
Read the Guttmacher Institute on attacks on contraceptive access.
Learn how politicians are attacking your right to birth control and reproductive health care.
Check Out "This Week in Birth Control" to see Our Posts on Birth Control Developments
Be Heard
Tell your U.S. Senators & Representatives that you want them to support legislation supporting access to birth control:
In North Carolina, your U.S. Senators are Thom Tillis and Ted Budd. Ask them to support S. 422, the Right to Contraception Act.
Use This Form to get contact information for your U.S. Representative. Ask them to support H.R. 4084, the Access to Birth Control Act.
Use This Form to contact your State Legislators and ask them to support access to birth control. Call them and express your position!
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Birth Control Choice is Life Choice!
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.
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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 conservative majority on the NC Supreme Court will not protect your family planning choices. Read this Pro Publica article on How Paul Newby Made North Carolina a Blueprint for Conservative Courts. Chief Justice Newby is a religious extremist who believes that God speaks directly to him, and that "life begins at conception," which dictates his views on reproductive rights.
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.