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Banning abortions is just the start – next the US right want to outlaw contraception | Arwa Mahdawi
Jacky Eubanks wants to be a Michigan senator – and to ban contraception. And she’s not the only one
Jacky Eubanks has a fire in her belly, Donald Trump’s endorsement under her belt and the eradication of birth control on her mind. A week ago no one had heard of Eubanks, a recent college graduate who is running for a Michigan state senate seat with Trump’s seal of approval. Now the Gen Z-ealot is all over the news because of a recent interview with a Christian organisation called Church Militant, in which she promised to vote to make birth control illegal should the opportunity arise.
“I think [birth control] gives people the false sense of security that they can have consequence-free sex, and that’s not true and that’s not correct,” Eubanks told Church Militant. “Sex ought to be between one man and one woman in the confines of marriage.” Perhaps she ought to tell her hero Trump that? Because it may have slipped his mind.
Arwa Mahdawi is a Guardian columnist
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