North Carolina
North Carolina Needs to Protect the Right to Contraception.
Here’s why our legislators need to hear from us.
Despite overwhelming public support for contraception, which most American families use, states across the country are threatening our right to contraception (e.g., birth control pills & IUDs).
In June 2024, North Carolina Republican Senators Thom Tillis and Ted Budd both voted against the Right to Contraception Act. When a version of this bill came before the U.S. House in 2022, every Republican representative from our state voted NO.
We also had the opportunity to protect the right to contraception in our state. The bill was a simple, four-sentence piece of legislation to write the right to contraception into state law. GOP leadership in the state senate blocked the bill from even being considered.
Mark Robinson, our Lieutenant Governor and the Republican gubernatorial candidate, is a MAGA extremist who wants to roll back women's rights and reproductive rights. He has repeatedly conflated abortion with birth control and has said, "I'm a firm believer that life starts at conception." That type of language is the basis for how an Alabama court tried to block IVF and threatened birth control. He even went as far as to compare birth control pioneers to "satanists".
Without pressure from us, our state GOP won't act. We need to make sure our representatives know that we will not stand for anyone who sits idly by while our fundamental right to contraception is at risk. We need action and we need it now—anything less than full support for our freedom to plan our families will be remembered.