Donald Trump chose for a seat in the Michigan state Senate promises to ban all birth control if he gets the chance.
“I think we have to ask ourselves, is that going to come to a vote in the Michigan state legislature? And if it should, I have to side with it should not be legal,” Republican Jacky Eubanks said in a recent interview. using the site Church Militant.
“People believe that birth control – better, like you said, oh, because then you won’t get pregnant and you won’t need an abortion,” she added. “But I think it gives people a false sense of security that they can have fruitless sex, and that’s not true and that’s not right. Intercourse should be between a man and a woman within the bounds of marriage.”
Eubanks’ comments were some of the most outspoken from a conservative candidate about contraception adherence. But with some other Republicans making it clear that abortion rights are likely to be gutted this summer, they’re starting to look contraceptive restrictions too.
Republican politicians have started talking about Griswold v. Connecticut as another case they want to overturn the Supreme Court after Roe v. Wade. That 1965 decision said couples have a right to access contraception based on the constitutional right to privacy. That decision could set the stage for future decisions that further restrict protections on birth control, abortion and marriage equality.
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), for example, recently called Griswold “unconstitutional.” Arizona GOP Senate candidate Blake Masters’ campaign website he said he will only support the judges “who understands that Roe and Griswold and Casey are wrong decisionand that there is no constitutional right to abortion.”
Other Republicans in Congress scoff at the idea of banning contraception, dismissing the notion that the Supreme Court would pursue something so popular. But Roe also famousand its days are probably numbered.
GOP lawmakers have long pushed for personhood legislation — and continue to do so in the midterm elections — that would classify fertilized eggs as human beings under the US Constitution, making abortion illegal. But it can also ban certain types of contraception, such as intrauterine devices (IUDs) and Plan B.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) warned earlier this month that GOP state legislatures are seeking to “criminalize contraceptive care, in vitro fertilization and post-miscarriage care, dragging out the our country back to the dark decades of the past.”
In his endorsement of Eubanks, Trump openly mentioned his support for the “big lie” – the false claim that the 2020 presidential election was marred by massive fraud. Eubanks called for another audit of the 2020 Michigan election results despite the fact that a preliminary audit no outside evidence of interference was found. He canvassed voters in search of alleged evidence of fraud, prompting a police complaint that he intimidation of voters.
“We will fight the beast,” Eubanks said at a rally earlier this year. “The beast hates us, but the good news is that God is on our side and God has won. If [we] keep praying and don’t follow and stand and fight peacefully, we will see the power of the regime break and finally restore the people to their rightful place as the true sovereigns of this country.”
