Plan B and other contraceptive methods could be the next targets of lawmakers in several states.
The Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade Friday and gave states license to ban abortion—increasing the likelihood that many contraception methods like birth control pills and Plan B could be targeted next, which some lawmakers have already suggested they want to do.
“If we had to guess, we suspect the prospects of this Court approving bans on contraception are low. But once again, the future significance of today’s opinion will be decided in the future,” liberal Justices Stephen Breyer, Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor wrote in their dissent against the court’s abortion ruling. “At the least, today’s opinion will fuel the fight to get contraception, and any other issues with a moral dimension, out of the Fourteenth Amendment and into state legislatures.”
Carol Tobias, president of National Right to Life, denied to Forbes that anti-abortion advocates would try to target birth control access next, calling the suggestion “scaremongering.” “Restrictions are not gonna happen,” Tobias told Forbes. “Contraception is not taking the life of an innocent human being.
