Democrats want to force Senate GOP to vote on contraception

Senate Majority Chief Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) introduced Wednesday the Senate will vote subsequent month on laws to guard ladies’s entry to contraception, establishing a marketing campaign challenge for the autumn.

Democrats anticipate Republicans to dam the invoice, simply as they’ve blocked laws defending entry to in vitro fertilization, which Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) mentioned included “poison capsules.”

Schumer introduced that the Senate has begun the method to contemplate the Proper to Contraception Act, which might codify the correct to contraception established by the landmark Supreme Courtroom resolution in Griswold v. Connecticut.

Democrats say that proper is now in danger due to the conservative majority’s opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Girls’s Well being Middle, which overturned the correct to abortion established by Roe v. Wade.

“Now greater than ever, contraception is a vital piece of defending ladies’s reproductive freedoms, standing as nothing wanting an important lifeline for hundreds of thousands of American ladies throughout the nation,” Schumer mentioned on the Senate flooring.

“Senate Democrats are dedicated to restoring ladies’s freedoms and can combat to guard entry to contraception and different reproductive freedoms which might be important safeguards for hundreds of thousands of ladies to regulate their very own lives, their futures, and their our bodies,” he mentioned.

Senate Democrats plan to make ladies’s entry to well being care, together with abortion rights, a prime challenge within the 2024 marketing campaign.

Sens. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii), Tammy Duckworth (D-Ailing.) and Patty Murray (D-Wash.) are the lead sponsors of the Proper to Contraception Act.

“The precise to contraception is the correct to important well being care, but extremist judges and radical Republicans proceed to threaten entry for hundreds of thousands of Individuals. We can not stand by as extremists proceed to undo many years of precedent and progress,” Markey mentioned in a press release when he launched the laws final 12 months.