Conservative influencers are pushing an anti-birth control message

[Eugene]

Source: NBC News

Conservative influencers are pushing an anti-birth control message

Alarmist statements about hormonal birth control go viral on social media, but experts say they’re not showing the full picture.

July 1, 2023, 9:00 AM EDT
By Kat Tenbarge

Major conservative influencers on social media platforms such as Twitter and Rumble have coalesced in recent months around talking points that connect birth control with a variety of negative health outcomes, which experts say instill fear in women who could otherwise benefit from using birth control.

But the information the influencers are referring to lacks crucial context, says Dr. Danielle Jones, an OB-GYN, and they fail to include recent scientific developments that challenge their narrative.

Tim Pool, Ben Shapiro and Steve Bannon have all made anti-birth control content in the past six months. Sometimes, they feature female conservative personalities who make content about women’s issues.

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While some strains of conservative politics have spent years attacking birth control, the more recent resurgence of anti-birth control talking points comes alongside a broader push from online conservative creators against the medical establishment and treatments from vaccines to gender-affirming care, all of which have been recommended in certain circumstances by the American Medical Association. In her response, Clark called birth control “synthetic,” as opposed to pregnancy, which she called “natural.”

The social media trend of attacking birth control has also coincided with legal and legislative efforts targeting birth control access, ...

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Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/birth-control-side-effects-influencers-danger-rcna90492

[Shipwack]

1. Cancer is "natural". Chemo is synthetic.

SMDH

The quality of thought these mental midgets have…

[DBoon]

3. Tuberculosis is "natural". Rifampicin is "synthetic"

[slightlv]

2. Yes... they are clueless and evil. And won't stop until women have no

rights at all (just like pre-1970's) and are tied to the house with a passle full of kids and a husband beating her because his dinner's cold. But, take this part of paragraph 4 and tremble...

"attacking birth control, the more recent resurgence of anti-birth control talking points comes alongside a broader push from online conservative creators against the medical establishment and treatments from vaccines to gender-affirming care, all of which have been recommended in certain circumstances by the American Medical Association."

There is so much inside these three lines to worry about. Yes, birth control access, but that's easy pickings for them at this point. We will lose access to it in most places in the United States. Women will have to do one of two things... or both... quit having sex with men and/or learn the old ways and formulas of birth control. (I'm talking not always reliable herbs)

I view many of them will probably turn to the old herbs for birth control. It may not work every time, and will demand women be very aware of their internal body changes, but as the many are whittled down to the few that work well and word is passed around to other women, witches, herbalists, and midwives will make a comeback big time. Enough that women may even forsake the doctor's offices all together except for emergency type situations... a broken leg/arm, etc.

At this point, the church turns on women "bigly"... and we repeat history. Alito has already drawn from a 15th century monk to outlaw abortion access.

But beyond women... if they're allowed to get away with this via women... what else is on the chopping block. Maybe insurance companies don't want to pay for the new chemo or dementia drugs and refuse to pay for them outright. Maybe anti-dementia drugs could offend someone's deeply held beliefs that old age should be lived as it arrives, with no medical help.

And that brings me to the next point on this slippery slide... how long before the Republicans actually legislate death panels? They were REAL quick to bring them up with the ACA. And we know they rarely say or do anything that isn't projection of something they've already done or want to do. Why warehouse someone when you can euthanize them cheaper?

When they refused vaccines, they told us they were anti-science and anti-medicine. This magat cult wants to take us back to the Dark Ages. And we'd better find someone in government that's going to stand up for what is right, true, and aligns with what the majority of people want. Or we're all going to be looking for some of the old "wise women."

[scipan]

4. I'm old enough to remember

what a liberating force birth control was when it became available. No more barriers to enter the work market.

I don't know exactly what their game is. Put women back in the kitchen I guess, but the big bonus may be lots of kids being raised to be faithful RWNJs.

[CTyankee]

5. It's an old playbook. Read history of the rise of the Nazi Party in Germany just prior to WW2

Aryan women were restricted from using birth control. "Undesirables" were put in concentration camps and killed.