A new war on birth control: Trump's victory has empowered the sex scolds

[DonViejo]

Trump hires an anti-birth control policy adviser — and Republicans in Congress prepare to escalate the attack

AMANDA MARCOTTE

Bad news for anyone who hoped that Donald Trump’s history as an adultery-loving and fornication champion might put a chill on the Republican Party’s war on sex: It seems that his election is instead inspiring the party of scolds to double down on their quest to punish ordinary people for having sex because they like it.

Trump, being wealthy and male, gets a pass for his lengthy history of sleeping with any woman who will have him — and bragging about grabbing the pussies of those who won’t. But for those of us who aren’t privileged enough to be wealthy men, Republicans are going to do everything in their power to inflict punishment in the form of sexually transmitted diseases and unwanted childbearing.

Trump’s willingness to fully embrace the Junior Anti-Sex League was demonstrated on Thursday, when his transition team announced the hire of Katy Talento as domestic policy counsel for the White House, focusing on health care. Not only is Talento against abortion — which is par for the course in Republican circles — she’s also an anti-birth control fanatic.

Like most anti-contraception militants, Talento has an elaborate set of pseudoscientific arguments against the use of hormonal birth control. In a 2015 piece she wrote for The Federalist titled “Miscarriage Of Justice: Is Big Pharma Breaking Your Uterus?” Talento tried to scare women away from using effective, female-controlled methods of birth control, like the pill or the implant, by claiming these methods cause miscarriage and infertility.

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1. One Day It Will Be A Felony To Possess Or Use Any Form Of Birth Control.

The GOP and its radical RW churches really want to make birth control pills and morning after pills class I drugs under control of the government. Women will not be able to even possess them. Even condoms will be off the market if these churches get their way. For them all sex outside of marriage is suspect and could become illegal.

We could go back to the days where sex outside of marriage is illegal and jail and fines would resume. So couple will have to carry their marriage certificate with them where ever they go. It could be like having sex police similar to those in Saudi Arabia and other Islamic states.