Trump cuts threaten access to birth control for millions of women

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But the Trump administration is walking back access to birth control for some people — including withholding funding from a Nixon-era program that guarantees access to contraception for low income people. KIMI CHERNOBY: So essentially, we see attacks on birth control at both the state level and the federal level. CHERNOBY: I think the fact that attacking birth control specifically appears in Project 2025 tells us how coordinated this is. She points out that the Trump administration has called on Americans to have more babies. RIDDLE: That’s why, she says, five decades ago, the federal government created a program that allowed everyone to access birth control.