Dawn Blagrove with Emancipate NC, center, speaks about the importance of protecting contraceptive rights on June 9, 2026. (Photo: Claire Michal/NC Newsline)
North Carolina Democratic state senators and advocates gathered Tuesday, the anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court case that enshrined access to contraception as a constitutional right, to warn that 61 years later, that right could once again be at risk.
Sens. Sophia Chitlik (D-Durham), Woodson Bradley (D-Mecklenburg), and Natalie Murdock (D-Durham) all spoke about the importance of protecting rights to contraception. The three also co-sponsored Senate Bill 413 which, if passed, would codify the access to contraception granted in Griswold v. Connecticut into North Carolina law.
“The promise of Griswold was that these deeply personal decisions belong to individuals, not politicians. Today, we are here to say that promise still matters, and we will continue fighting to protect that here in North Carolina and beyond,” Murdock said.
Their push to protect access to contraception is in response, they say, to a nationwide rollback and challenges to abortion rights and access to contraception, the result of a 2021 Supreme Court decision that overturned the constitutional right to an abortion.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas wrote in his concurring opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which overturned Roe v. Wade, that the right to privacy in Roe should itself be called into question. He said the Supreme Court “should reconsider” other rulings in that light, including Griswold.
In the years since the Dobbs decision, 14 states have opened the door to challenges to contraceptives by affirming that life begins at the point of conception. Alabama led the charge after its supreme court ruled that life started at fertilization. The case targeted IVF treatments, but critics have said the ruling could also threaten access to IUDs, a form of contraception that prevents the implantation of a fertilized egg.
Last month, North Carolina Rep. Keith Kidwell (R-Beaufort) and Rep. Ben Moss (R-Richmond) sponsored House Bill 1232, which would allow voters in November to amend the constitution to define human life as starting at the moment of conception. Moss later removed himself as a primary sponsor after the bill received significant social media criticism.
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Opponents said the language of the bill would allow violence against people that perform and receive abortion, or even use some kinds of contraception.
Kidwell did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
House Speaker Destin Hall (R-Caldwell) told reporters recently that the bill did not have widespread support within the caucus.
“It doesn’t have any chance of moving at all, and I don’t think there’s literally any member of our caucus who wants it to move, Representative Kidwell might, but it’s not a serious bill,” Hall said.
Chitlik referenced H1232 in her comments on Tuesday.
“They are out of step with their constituents, and even with their own party, and this will backfire in November.” Chitlik said. “From Plan B to the IUD, contraception is safe, it is effective, it is essential.”
During the press conference, the senators also addressed the economic implications of access to contraception for millions of families in North Carolina.
“Whether or not people can afford to have a child should not be the determining factor for them to start a family, but that is the situation that millions of Americans and millions of North Carolinians have been forced into.” Chitlik said “If we do not protect the right to contraception, they will be forced into economic catastrophe, and we will see skyrocketing rates of child poverty in our state.”
Nevertheless, Chitlik expressed little hope that Senate Bill 413 would move beyond the Rules committee.
“They’re not going to move because they have Democrats’ names at the top of them, and Democratic bills in the Senate are not allowed to move, regardless of the merit of those items,” Chitlik said.
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