Bacon Grease and Marriage Licenses?                     Ask your mom, aunt, grandmother her story about the challenges of accessible birth control or share your own story with us.

Yes, that’s right – creative uses of bacon grease and having to show your marriage license to get a prescription for birth control is what many of our mothers, great aunts, and grandmothers endured.

Check out the stories we’ve received and share stories from your mom, grandmother, aunt, or yourself about the challenges of gaining access to birth control.

It’s been nearly fifty years since the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Connecticut v Griswold struck down state bans on birth control. Yet women in at least 24 states have reported that their pharmacists have denied them access to birth control. And politicians are not making it any easier by trying to limit access to affordable contraception and other women’s health care needs.

Help us collect stories to remind our daughters and granddaughters about the fights we have won — and help them fight the challenges that lie ahead. Ask your mom, aunt, or grandmother her story about the challenges of accessible birth control or share your own story with us.

Sincerely,

Judy Waxman Vice President for Health and Reproductive Rights National Women’s Law Center

P.S. Don’t think moms talk to daughters about birth control? Check out a video of my daughter and me discussing how difficult it used to be to access birth control.