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The Senate this afternoon voted not to advance a bill that would create a federal right to access contraception. The procedural measure, which required 60 votes, failed as all but two Republicans present (Collins and Murkowski) voted against it.
It was two years ago this month when Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas explicitly condemned the ruling in Griswold v. Connecticut, the 1965 case that struck down a state law that restricted married couples’ access to birth control, calling for it to be “reconsidered.” The far-right jurist had a lot of company: Around the same time, a variety of Republican senators and candidates were also eagerly rejecting the Griswold precedent.
The Democrats’ Right To Contraception Act soon followed. The idea was rather straightforward: The legislation would codify in federal law American’s right to obtain and use contraceptives.The bill had passed in the House in 2022 when only eight GOP members supported the bill. The legislation has languished in the Senate since then, the Senate unable to overcome a filibuster.
Under the “Project 2025” blueprint, a second Trump administration would plan to “overhaul which forms of birth control insurance companies must cover for patients at no cost under the Affordable Care Act.”
Last month, convicted felon Donald Trump said that he was “looking at” restrictions on contraception, if elected.
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