Media Must Expose Right-Wing Attacks on Birth Control

The Supreme Court’s latest actions targeting mifepristone are not isolated legal disputes—they are part of a broader, coordinated right-wing campaign to roll back reproductive healthcare and restrict access to birth control. Conservative legal groups, activists, and politicians have spent years building a strategy to challenge reproductive rights through the courts, using incremental cases to chip away at abortion access, telemedicine protections, and eventually contraception itself.

Yet too much media coverage treats these cases as narrow abortion disputes or procedural court fights rather than examining the organized political movement driving them. When attacks on reproductive healthcare are covered in isolation, the public is left without a clear understanding that the same legal theories and networks targeting abortion medication are part of a larger effort to undermine reproductive freedom more broadly.

We call on major news organizations to cover these Supreme Court cases as part of a coordinated right-wing campaign against reproductive rights—examining the political organizations involved, the long-term legal strategy, and the implications for birth control access nationwide. The public deserves reporting that connects the dots before more rights are dismantled.