More than 90 percent of Americans support access to contraception. Only 8 percent say using it is morally wrong. Fewer Americans object to birth control than object to drinking alcohol, getting a divorce, or being extremely rich. For more than 60 years, contraception has been one of the most broadly supported aspects of American healthcare, so politically untouchable that even conservative politicians avoided attacking it directly.

That era is over. And millions of Americans who depend on federally-funded family planning services are about to feel the consequences.

The Trump administration has released new HHS guidance that prioritizes childbirth over contraception and elevates natural family planning methods like period-tracking apps over medically proven contraceptives like the birth control pill. The administration is also moving to end further funding for Planned Parenthood, which provides contraception to millions of low-income Americans through the Title X federal family planning program. These are not minor adjustments. They are a fundamental reorientation of federal family planning policy away from medical evidence and toward the ideological preferences of a political coalition.

The medical evidence is not ambiguous. The Mayo Clinic describes natural family planning methods as among the least effective methods of birth control. The rhythm method has a roughly 25 percent annual pregnancy rate, meaning one in four people using it as their primary contraceptive will become pregnant within a year. The Trump administration's new guidance promotes these methods not because they work better but because they align with the preferences of social conservatives, pronatalists, and MAHA adherents who make up a key part of the president's political base. Federal family planning guidance is not supposed to serve a political coalition. It is supposed to serve the health and autonomy of the millions of Americans who depend on it.

The Heritage Foundation, a key driver of Trump administration policy, has claimed that birth control pill chemicals have polluted groundwater and compromised boys' masculinity. These claims are not supported by peer-reviewed science. They are the kinds of claims that circulate on wellness influencer platforms and anti-establishment social media ecosystems. They have no place in federal healthcare policy. And yet they are shaping the guidance that will determine what family planning services millions of low-income Americans can access through federal programs.

Title X was passed in 1970 specifically to provide free or low-cost contraceptives to low-income patients. It exists because access to effective contraception is a healthcare need, not a luxury, and because the ability to plan a family is fundamental to the ability to build a life. Cutting that program, ending Planned Parenthood funding, and replacing evidence-based contraceptive guidance with ideology-driven promotion of ineffective methods does not help American families. It harms them. It harms the people who cannot afford alternatives. It harms the people who rely on Planned Parenthood as their primary healthcare provider. And it harms the broader public health by driving up unintended pregnancy rates among the populations least equipped to absorb that outcome.

Sign this petition to demand HHS withdraw its new family planning guidance and replace it with evidence-based policy developed in consultation with medical professionals, protect Title X funding and reject any cuts to federal contraception programs, and affirm that every American has the right to access the most effective contraception available without government interference driven by political ideology.