Igor Bobic is a senior HuffPost reporter who covers Congress, the White House, and political campaigns. He can be reached at [email protected] and is on Twitter @igorbobic.
brought the bill to the floor out of fear that reproductive rights will be further threatened after the Supreme Court overturned the nationwide right to an abortion two years ago. Republican lawmakers in some states have“Today, we live in a country where not only tens of millions of women have been robbed of their reproductive freedoms.
The right to contraceptives is protected by long-standing Supreme Court precedents of Griswold v. Connecticut and Eisenstadt v. Baird. But Democrats noted there’s nothing stopping the high court from repealing or curtailing those decisions, as it did for abortion rights by striking down Roe v. Wade. In fact, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ concurrence to the decision striking down abortion rights directly called for the court to reconsider the right to contraception.
“It’s my belief they’ve engaged in a summer of scare tactics,” she added, referring to coming votes on additional legislation dealing with reproductive rights, including guaranteeing access to in vitro fertilization.
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