Senate Republicans block bill to recognize legal right to contraception<\/p>\n
Ziegler said abortion opponents could even use existing abortion bans to outlaw contraception. After Roe fell, three states \u2013 Georgia, Utah and Oklahoma \u2013 changed their legal definitions of \u201cabortion\u201d to remove language that protected contraception, according to a draft of a forthcoming paper<\/a> by Greer Donley, an associate professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, and law student Caroline Kelly.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is no longer a fringe, side issue for a lot of these groups,\u201d Ziegler said of redefining abortion. \u201cIt\u2019s a central plank of what they\u2019re trying to do.\u201d<\/p>\n Read more at The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n Senate Republicans block bill to protect access to contraception<\/p>\n \u201cWe saw what the Supreme Court did on abortion, and now there\u2019s a real risk they may do the same thing on contraception,\u201d Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., said on MSNBC\u2019s “Morning Joe.” \u201cI\u2019m really sick of this idea that the Republicans think they can say two things simultaneously \u2014 they can talk to their extremist group and say, \u2018I\u2019ll give you everything you want. We are going to ban abortion, IVF<\/a>, contraception, everything you want,\u2019 and then try to say to the rest of America, \u2018Boy, we don\u2019t want any part in that.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n Read more at NBC News<\/a><\/p>\n ‘Calling their bluff’: Contraception bill fails in Senate<\/p>\n Democrats and their progressive allies counter that the threat to birth control access is very real, at both the state and federal level. The text of the bill, for instance, cited a concurring opinion Justice Clarence Thomas wrote in the 2022 Dobbs<\/i> decision that the court \u201cshould reconsider\u201d other longstanding precedents like Griswold v. Connecticut<\/i> \u2014 the 1965 decision guaranteeing the right for married couples to use contraception.<\/p>\n Read more at Politico<\/a><\/p>\n Senate Republicans Annoyed By Their Own Inconsistency On Contraceptives<\/p>\n In a 51-39 vote, Senate Republicans blocked a motion to proceed to a floor vote on the Right to Contraception Act, which sought to federally protect access to birth control and other forms of contraception. It needed 60 votes to overcome the filibuster and proceed to a vote. Sens. Susan Collins (R-ME) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) were the only Republicans to vote with Democrats. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) switched his vote to a \u201cno\u201d at the last minute, a procedural maneuver so that Democrats can bring up the bill again in the future.<\/p>\n Read more at Talking Points Memo<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Senate Republicans block bill to recognize legal right to contraception Ziegler said abortion opponents could even use existing abortion bans to outlaw contraception. After Roe fell, three states \u2013 Georgia, Utah and Oklahoma \u2013 changed their legal definitions of \u201cabortion\u201d to remove language that protected contraception, according to a draft of a forthcoming paper by … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[203,252,41,137,375],"class_list":["post-2431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-2024-election","tag-anti-contraception","tag-congress","tag-gop","tag-right-to-contraception-act"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2431"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2432,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2431\/revisions\/2432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}