Thread by @dogemperor

I hate to interrupt the piss-taking, but...it should be noted that the Christian Nationalists who have a moral panic over the "Sexual Health" aisle of the Target are literally the same ones who want *Griswold v Connecticut* to go away (along with *Roe v Wade*)

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https://twitter.com/piko3000/status/1519465728012922881

(Yes, literally. A lot of them actually have basic issues with the entire idea of contraception, hormonal or otherwise. Some groups, like Quiverfull types, even argue women should not be allowed in any way to determine their reproductive destiny.)

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And many of us #exvangelicals have tried to warn, for *decades* now, that if Roe goes they'll be going after *Griswold* next (which, among other things, actually paves the way FOR Target to even *have* sales of prophylactics in the Sexual Health aisle).

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And FWIW: There are actually still a number of states in the US (particularly in the Southeast US) where it is *still* illegal to purchase marital aids except for "medical reasons". Multiple states actually outlawed the sale of prophylactics before *Griswold*,

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and other states banned the advertisement of contraception (pretty much they legally *had* to keep the condoms behind the counter, and you had to specifically ask for them), or banned sales to certain groups.

fortune.com/2015/06/07/50-…

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Christian Nationalist groups have actually attacked hormonal birth control since it came out (falsely accusing it of causing abortions, claiming it turned girls into "sluts", etc.). Same groups started their antivax trend hardcore with HPV shot and hep-B shots

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both of which were condemned for essentially giving a "sexual license", and actual disinfo promoted re HPV shots in particular which would be an early glimpse of the same kinds of disinfo we see now regarding covid shots by Christian Nationalist groups

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But--and this is less well known, save for people who were #exvangelicals raised in groups deep in the anti-reproductive-healthcare movement...the same groups that would claim that "the pill" caused abortions also claimed spermicides caused abortions

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(Nonoxynol-9 containing spermicides were especially targeted, and this is probably not coincidence as this particular spermicide was thought to have some anti-HIV activity in the days before PrEP was a Thing.)

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These were literally, to a one, the same Christian Nationalist groups that were pushing for everything but abstinence-only education to be struck (as "potentially giving kids ideas and encouraging sex"), the same ones that are basically writing the "don't say gay" bills

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So yes, it's lulzy seeing someone have a meltdown over the fact that "oh noes Target sells marital aids and prophylactics", but make no mistake, this is the kind of typical Moral Panic that Christian Nationalists use to get the camel's nose in the tend to erase *Griswold*

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As an aside:

If people are curious about the history of chastity laws banning sale of contraceptives: jurist.org/archives/featu… (Actually banned federally from 1873 until 1918, banned for ship by mail until 1936, 30 states banned or restricted sales until *Griswold*)