Religious conservatives are for one of two reasons or sometimes both. According to them, access to birth control (and condoms, and the HPV vaccine) encourages promiscuity and premarital sex. And according to them, birth control kills a human being - which is patently scientifically untrue. (Some older forms of hormonal birth control prevented the implantation of a fertilized egg, but modern hormonal birth control prevents ovulation, so there's no egg to even be fertilized. Emergency contraception pills such as Plan B are more likely to prevent implantation of a fertilized egg, but even then it's not the only mechanism of action.)
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Religious conservatives are for one of two reasons or sometimes both. According to them, access to birth control (and condoms, and the HPV vaccine) encourages promiscuity and premarital sex. And according to them, birth control kills a human being - which is patently scientifically untrue. (Some older forms of hormonal birth control prevented the implantation of a fertilized egg, but modern hormonal birth control prevents ovulation, so there's no egg to even be fertilized. Emergency contraception pills such as Plan B are more likely to prevent implantation of a fertilized egg, but even then it's not the only mechanism of action.)