It seems to me that there is an increasingly well-financed but barely-more-organized and only slightly-growing progressive minority--and not a critical mass of Americans in general (i.e., a swath of the population that includes self-proclaimed moderates or otherwise [irresponsibly] apolitical citizens)--who understand that the very notion of a ban on birth control
*is insidiously antithetical to a modern, civilized culture,
*is alarming in its relative viability (that it is being discussed at all), and
*is a reflection of an already 40-years-old Religious Right/Republican Party alliance successfully turning America from a secular experiment in representative democracy inspired by Enlightenment ideals to a theocracy like the Pilgrims coveted, like the Puritans in Salem had, and which our Founding Fathers expressly rejected by dismissing outright any ideas of creeds (and thus such things as the name "Jesus"), sectarian concepts of any kind, and the very notion of theologically-based governance from the bulk of discussions, the anticipatory documents (e.g., The Declaration of Independence), and the final document--the Constitution with the Bill of Rights--upon which The United States was to stand.

It can not be stated often enough that the secular nature of America's government was that which made it most remarkable. Horribly, that is the very thing under ruthless, sustained attack today and during the last 30 to 40 years. The true American spirit is being bled dry.

We have reached a point where theology--be it that which fuels the anti-birth control movement or that which fuels Republican foreign policy--trumps liberty, science, and health. That is a disaster! And it is a disaster that smolders as darkly as 9/11, Katrina, or the bungled Iraqi invasion with its crushing financial, human, diplomatic costs, because the Christianization of the American experiment is national in scope, multi-generational in consequence, and incalculably harmful to America's identity and character.

Two paragraphs from the article:

Still, the anti-birth-control movement's efforts are making a significant
political impact: Supporters have pressured insurance companies to refuse
coverage of contraception, lobbied for "conscience clause" laws to protect
pharmacists from having to dispense birth control, and are redefining the very
meaning of pregnancy to classify certain contraceptive methods as abortion. In
increasing numbers, women and men opposed to contraception are marshaling health
facts and figures to bolster their convictions that sex for anything but
procreation is morally wrong and potentially deadly. Although its medical
arguments are really just thinly veiled moral and religious arguments, using
findings that are biased and unfounded, the rising anti-contraception movement,
echoed by the [Roman] Catholic Church, is making significant inroads. Leaders of the
pro-choice movement know it, are worried about it, and realize they can't take
it lightly, as they mount their own strategies to battle it.

"It is very hard to awaken people to the threat," says Gloria Feldt, the
former president of Planned Parenthood, "because who can believe that something
so accessible can be at risk? But that's what [people] said when they started
attacking Roe, and now look at how close we are to losing Roe."