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Robin Abcarian: Hang on to the pill and your IUD. After abortion, birth control is the next fight

The U.S. Supreme Court building as seen on Sunday, July 11, 2021 in Washington, D.C..

Mark my words: Contraception is the next front in the war on women. And we can't say we haven't been warned.

In 2010, when the Affordable Care Act — Obamacare — was close to passing, Republicans argued strenuously against requiring companies to provide contraception as a health care benefit. Many argued that all forms of female contraception are tantamount to abortion.

A couple of years later, a man who was briefly a front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, promised to be the first "is not OK. ... it's a license to do things in the sexual realm that is counter to how things are supposed to be."

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