{"id":1170713,"date":"2023-08-04T05:56:12","date_gmt":"2023-08-04T05:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=290447"},"modified":"2023-08-04T05:57:12","modified_gmt":"2023-08-04T05:57:12","slug":"at-last-an-over-the-counter-birth-control-pill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/08\/04\/at-last-an-over-the-counter-birth-control-pill\/","title":{"rendered":"At Last, an Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this era of beleaguered feminism and receding female rights, anything that contributes to a woman, rather than the state, controlling her own body is welcome. Because currently women are losing rights \u2013 not just the absence of Roe v. Wade, but possibly the right to out-of-state travel during pregnancy, the right to decent maternal care and collection of medical pregnancy statistics (now banned in Idaho, a state that apparently despises women) and, in some supposedly left-wing quarters, even the right to be called a woman. So the political right hates women, while a segment of the left denies women even exist. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/08\/04\/at-last-an-over-the-counter-birth-control-pill\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/08\/04\/at-last-an-over-the-counter-birth-control-pill\/\">At Last, an Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pill<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/08\/04\/at-last-an-over-the-counter-birth-control-pill\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this era of beleaguered feminism and receding female rights, anything that contributes to a woman, rather than the state, controlling her own body is welcome. Because currently women are losing rights \u2013 not just the absence of Roe v. Wade, but possi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":380,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,266],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170713"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/380"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1170713"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1170944,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170713\/revisions\/1170944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1170713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1170713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1170713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}