Robin Summers

National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association (NFPRHA)

Robin Summers is the Director of Public Policy for the National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association (NFPRHA). NFPRHA is a non-profit membership organization whose mission is to assure access to voluntary, comprehensive, affordable and culturally sensitive family planning and reproductive health services and to support reproductive freedom for all. Robin earned her Juris Doctor degree from Rutgers School of Law – Camden, and has a BA in History from Truman State University.

The “Misconceptions” of Contraception: Enough to Make Sun Tzu Cringe

Robin Summers

Robin Summers is the Senior Policy Analyst for the National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association (NFPRHA).

The famous Chinese general, Sun Tzu, in his infamous military treatise, "The Art of War," wrote: "All warfare is based on deception." Common sense tells us, however, that for a deception to prove effective, the lie must ring true. That is where the enemies of reproductive choice fail in the newest stratagem in their war: the attack on contraception.

[img_assist|nid=598|title=Special Series|desc=|link=none|align=left|width=100|height=67]A couple of weeks ago, anti-choice activists gathered in Chicago for a conference entitled, "Contraception Is Not the Answer." You may have read about it in the Chicago Tribune, or in blogs like this one. The organizer of this attack on contraception was none other than Joe Scheidler and his Pro-Life Action League, the man who vowed to stop abortion "by any means necessary" and the group he called the "pro-life mafia" - the same group that proclaimed a "year of pain and fear" in the 1980s during a rash of violent attacks on abortion providers and clinics. Now it seems that our friend Joe has decided that contraception is the cause of most, if not all, of society's problems.