CONTRACEPTION: "Ohio is the Latest Battlefield in the War on Contraception," Amanda Marcotte, RH Reality Check: "The latest battle in the war on contraception is being fought in Ohio, where the House Health and Aging Committee" recently approved a bill (HB 298) that would effectively block distribution of federal family planning money to Planned Parenthood and other organizations that operate family planning clinics, Marcotte writes. Although "the word 'abortion' gets tossed around a lot, this bill makes it clear that the biggest sin of Planned Parenthood and other family planning clinics, in anti-choice eyes, is that they help women have better sexual health and control their family sizes," she writes. By ending the competitive grant process, Ohio's conservative lawmakers "aren't even trying to tie this to abortion anymore, but blatantly objecting to a model of providing reproductive health care that's been proven to work, precisely because they don't want it to work," Marcotte concludes (Marcotte, RH Reality Check, 11/18).

What others are saying about contraception:

~ "What's Next in the Litigation Over the Obamacare Contraception Mandate?" Jessica Mason Pieklo, RH Reality Check.