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Source: Associated Press
House Dems move to protect contraception from Supreme Court
By ALAN FRAM
July 21, 2022
WASHINGTON (AP) The right to use contraceptives would be inscribed into law under a measure Democrats are pushing through the House, their latest campaign-season response to worries that a conservative Supreme Court thats erased federal abortion rights could go further.
The House planned to vote Thursday on the legislation and send it to the Senate, where its fate seemed uncertain. The push underscored that Democrats are latching onto their own version of culture-war battles to appeal to female, progressive and minority voters by casting the court and Republicans as extremists intent on obliterating rights taken for granted for years.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said now that the radical, Republican-stacked Supreme Court overturned the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, GOP lawmakers want to do more than ban abortion.
Those of us whove been in Congress a while can tell you that they have been against contraception, family planning, birth control the entire time, said Pelosi, D-Calif. This is their moment. Clarence Thomas has made that clear. Theyre right down to the fundamentals of privacy that they want to erase.
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Read more: https://apnews.com/article/abortion-us-supreme-court-health-marriage-congress-b356e61953ca2dbaef27faa4ace22ade
ProudMNDemocrat
(16,807 posts)To be sure.
Women in Tennessee have to be 2 beers shy of a 6 pack to vote Republican. They may be anti-abortion, but Birth Control is another personal matter entirely.
Wounded Bear
(58,724 posts)Freddie
(9,275 posts)Plus it will show what absolutely hypocrites the pro-lifers are by opposing the one sure way to prevent abortion. Of course we know that preventing abortions is not a priority, but let them say it out loud.