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Conservative attacks on birth control could threaten access to reproductive rights (www.washingtonpost.com)

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It is time to ratify the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights. Tell the supreme court that they have to account for a treaty in international human rights law.

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Since the Supreme Court overturned the right to abortion two years ago, far-right conservatives have been trying to curtail birth-control access by sowing misinformation about how various methods work to prevent pregnancy, even as Republican leaders scramble to reassure voters they have no intention of restricting the right to contraception, which polls show the vast majority of Americans favor.

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