June 7, 2024 6:30 am

The War on Contraception That Wasn’t

The charge that Republicans are working to cut off access to contraception is so ludicrously unfounded that it amounts to an outlandish conspiracy theory.

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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) speaks during a press conference supporting the Right to Contraception Act on Capitol Hill, June 5, 2024.

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We don’t know who they are or where they are. All we know is that some place or other, a shadowy group of powerful Republicans is meeting to figure out how to ban contraceptives.

For all we know, they might also be scheming to cover up what really happened at Area 51 and to obscure the identity of the real assassin of JFK.

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Rich Lowry

Rich Lowry is the editor in chief of National Review.

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We don’t know who they are or where they are. All we know is that some place or other, a shadowy group of powerful Republicans is meeting to figure out how to ban contraceptives.

For all we know, they might also be scheming to cover up what really happened at Area 51 and to obscure the identity of the real assassin of JFK.