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🗓️ 21 July 2025
⏱️ 10 minutes
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0:00.0 | Earlier this year, the Trump administration scrubbed CDC guidance on birth control from government websites |
0:07.0 | and froze $65 million in funding to family planning clinics that provide free or low-cost contraception. |
0:14.0 | Despite the president's campaign statements that he does not support a ban on birth control, |
0:19.0 | the moves are seen as part of a growing effort |
0:21.5 | to restrict access to certain forms of birth control and to curtail reproductive rights. |
0:27.3 | For our new series, The Next Frontier, special correspondent Sarah Varney reports on where the |
0:32.8 | anti-abortion rights movement is focusing its efforts after the fall of row. |
0:38.3 | Reeve, you know you're supposed to have a helmet. |
0:40.8 | Saturdays are a whirl at Ashley Key's home in this Houston suburb. |
0:45.0 | With three young sons and four dogs, someone is always coming and going. |
0:51.9 | Growing up an only child, Ashley says she always wanted lots of kids. |
0:56.0 | I love being a mom. I genuinely feel like this was a calling of mine. |
1:02.0 | She first started taking birth control pills as a teenager to treat chronic migraines. |
1:07.0 | But as Ashley got older, she says it allowed her to safely navigate relationships. |
1:11.6 | I got to explore dating and deciding who I wanted to have sex with, who I didn't, and who I trusted to make that decision with. |
1:19.6 | Today, nearly 47 million women in the U.S. use some form of contraception, and 89% of Americans support access to the pill. |
1:29.5 | If I weren't on contraception, I could have been a teenage mom, and that would have been |
1:34.2 | insane for me because I had huge goals for my life. |
1:38.5 | Modern contraception has been central to advancing women's equal status. For example, since |
1:43.8 | the pill was introduced in 1960, |
1:46.0 | female labor force participation increased from 37 percent to more than 57 percent today. |
1:53.0 | And for decades, the pill remained uncontroversial with broad bipartisan support. |
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