Abortion and Birth Control

NWL demands that women have full control over the decision to have children. We want free and full access to all forms of birth control, including contraception and abortion. We want to make these decisions without pressure to have children, to go on Depo-Provera, to take hormones, or to get sterilized. We want men to do their share of pregnancy prevention and disease prevention by wearing a condom without being asked, paying for birth control and/or getting a vasectomy. We want doctors to ask men, not just us, what they are using for birth control.

Since 2004, feminists in National Women’s Liberation, through the Morning-After Pill Conspiracy, have led a grassroots fight to make the Morning-After Pill (MAP, also known as “emergency contraception”) available to all women without restriction. While feminist pressure forced the Food and Drug Administration to finally put one brand of MAP over the counter without any restrictions in 2013, the generic versions must be labeled for sale to women 17 and up, therefore still requiring women to show ID to purchase the generic.  NWL continues the fight to make this important tool available at all women’s fingertips. For more information see mapconspiracy.org.