Plan B Is at Risk in Post-Roe America

Anti-abortion protesters outside the US Supreme Court

Photographer: Valerie Plesch/Bloomberg

Good morning, it’s Riley in New York. For decades, anti-abortion groups have conflated the so-called morning-after pill with the abortion pill. I’m here to tell you why the misinformation campaign has put emergency contraceptives at risk. But before we get to that...

Almost all women will use some form of birth control in their lifetime. Even so, emergency contraception like the Plan B One-Step pill has long been vilified by the anti-abortion movement. And it’s likely to face renewed attacks in the wake of the Supreme Court reversing Roe v. Wade.