Evie Mag Will Help Conservatives Ban Birth Control

Here's how it can happen and how we can fight back

Today’s post is a collab with my friend Emily Amick of the Emily in Your Phone Instagram and newsletter. Emily’s thoughtful takes on the world right now keeps me sane and hopeful and her book Democracy in Retrograde has kept me involved in politics even when I feel desperately burnt out.

This week Evie magazine launched a new campaign: Ditch the Pill.

If you aren’t familiar with Evie, they are the ‘Cosmo for conservatives’ digital mag that is most famous for publishing a cover of Hannah Neelman from Ballerina Farm. This week they made a series of IG posts announcing “Ditch the Pill Day” and glorifying the celebrities who have gone off birth control. This isn’t new content for them, but it is an escalation. The founder of Evie also started a natural cycle-tracking app, backed by Peter Thiel the billionaire backer of both Trump and Vance.

The pill doesn’t work for everyone. Plenty of people, the both of us included, don’t enjoy being on it. We need more research into women’s health, period. But the pill is also an incredibly effective tool to allow women to decide when and how to get pregnant and to maintain control over their lives. It’s also used by people to treat all types of medical ailments and aid in fertility treatments. When Emily was in her dying era last year she had to go on the pill for a month when her body stopped making all types of hormones. And despite some of the side effects, Jo used the pill for decades to make sure she could carve out the kind of professional and personal life she wanted before she settled down, got married and had her three children. The pill gave her options and let her have both a career and a family.

Pregnancy, it’s always important to note, can have tremendous medical side effects. Especially in a time where access to abortion is increasingly difficult.

But those kinds of nuanced conversations are not being had in Evie’s coverage. Hormonal birth control is demonized by pseudo-science that includes things as ridiculous as the idea that hormonal birth control will make women more attracted to “less masculine men.”

So what is actually behind this?

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