Wapo joins the war on reproductive freedom
By This is the promoting tweet and the headline:
This is the story:
A former nurse practitioner who worked at an Alexandria, Va., MinuteClinic is suing CVS Health, alleging that the company fired her because she refused on religious grounds to give certain contraceptives or “abortion-causing” drugs.
Attorneys for Paige Casey said in a lawsuit filed in Prince William County Circuit Court that CVS, which owns MinuteClinic, exempted the nurse for more than 2½ years from prescribing certain contraceptive drugs or devices that cause an abortion. It specifically cited Plan B and Ella, which are commonly referred to as morning-after pills. Casey was granted the accommodation after she wrote a request to the company stating her Catholic beliefs, the lawsuit said.
That changed in August 2021, when the Rhode Island-based company announced that its employees could no longer avoid prescribing abortion-inducing drugs and other forms of birth control, the lawsuit said.
To refer to morning-after pills as “abortion-inducing” is just flat misinformation. Absolutely inexcusable. But this illustrates again why focusing on whether Griswold is formally overruled is largely missing the point: if you just call forms of contraception women have control over “abortifacients” and purportedly objective media sources are willing to take your claims seriously you don’t need to overrule Griswold to severely limit access to contraception.