Congratulations, Maryland!
Welcome to the growing collection of places where people are decent to each other!
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I'm bemused by the remarkable contrasts I see going on in the US. At the same time as more states are acknowledging that a loving, committed relationship is a loving, committed relationship regardless of the gender(s) of the people involved, other states are lining up for what I can only regard as a war on women.
I have of late felt an overwhelming desire to track down some of the idiots in various state and national legislatures and slap them upside the head. Here's the plain facts, folks:
1. If a woman wants to have sex with the entire starting lineup of the New York Mets, that's her prerogative. If you're her spouse and you don't like it, then you can divorce her. If you're the spouse of one of the Mets and you don't like it, then talk to your man and make sure he agrees to refuse the other woman's offer.
2. If the starting lineup of the Yankees then come to her home and say, "Hey, we hear you're gang-banging baseball players. We would like to get in on that," she has an absolute right to say, "Yeah, no thanks." She doesn't have to give a reason. And the proper response for the Yankees would be to then say, "Okay, it was worth a try. So long."
Now, there are folks who view such behavior as immoral. (They may even pay token lip-service to suggesting that the men in this scenario are also being immoral, but the brunt of their scorn will fall on the woman.)
People are free to believe this behavior is immoral. They're even free to say, "Hey, that's immoral. People shouldn't do that." They can get up on their pulpit and preach all day long if they choose. I may not like what they say, but the First Amendment gives them the right to say it and I respect that.
But they are not free to try to stop this behavior by the chicanery of limiting access to birth control. A woman's medical choices are between her and her doctor. It's no one else's business. If she's using birth control so that she has less fear of unwanted pregnancy while indulging in the pleasures of the flesh, that, too, is no one's business.
Total strangers are not allowed to tell other people when and how and with what risks they are permitted to have sex.