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For decades, abortion opponents swore that they had created a single-issue movement and had no interest in changing access to birth control. It was never that simple, and the past few weeks have only made that clearer. Conservative opposition to contraception is a staple of right-wing social media, from anti-abortion groups to MAHA influencers. And in the second Trump administration, the arguments against birth control are changing: Regulators are being asked to revisit birth control at least partly (and explicitly) to benefit men.

That’s the new argument promoted by the Heritage Foundation, the group that led Project 2025. Heritage has been in the news lately for a second reason: a civil war within the powerful think tank after its president defended former Fox News host Tucker Carlson for hosting the white nationalist Nick Fuentes on his popular online show. But what Heritage has to say on sex and reproduction matters. The group has influenced everything from key appointments in the Trump administration to policy initiatives that track Project 2025’s Mandate for Leadership.

Before, anti-contraception claims often borrowed from an anti-abortion strategy first forged in the 1990s. At the time, massive blockades of abortion clinics made headlines. So did a string of murders and other violent crimes directed at those who

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