The popular embrace of hormonal birth control, since its introduction in 1960, has had a profound impact on society by altering the once-standard path of women’s lives. Women have gained a greater ability to choose if and when they will have children — and how many — and are more able to pursue careers on their own timelines.
No clear connection exists between support for the use of hormonal birth control and political or religious beliefs. In a 2022 FiveThirtyEight/Ipsos poll, 93 percent of Republicans and 91 percent of Democrats said that birth-control pills “should be legal in ‘all’ or ‘most’ cases.” Religious belief, in general, does not significantly alter an American’s stance on contraceptive use. According to a 2016 study by Pew Research Center on beliefs about birth-control use, only 4 percent of Protestants and 8 percent of Catholics in the U.S. think using contraceptives is morally wrong.
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