Author: Marian Starkey

Marian Starkey is the Vice President for Communications at Population Connection Action Fund, an NGO based in Washington, DC, that advocates for human-rights-based solutions to population challenges—namely, access to voluntary, rights-based family planning. She has been a clinic escort for 17 years, first in Virginia and now in Maine, where she lives with her husband and chihuahua-terrier mix.

Almost 100 Percent of U.S. Women Use Contraception—So Why Doesn’t Birth Control Have More Republican Support?

As if the overturning of Roe v. Wade, and the ensuing introduction of total abortion bans in 14 states, isn’t dystopian enough, the United States has become a country where there isn’t enough congressional support for contraception in order to pass a bill protecting the right of patients to use it and the right of providers to prescribe it. This should horrify everyone.