House Dems move to protect contraception from Supreme Court

[Eugene]

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 that’s 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 who’ve 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. They’re 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

[Timeflyer]

1. History repeats

"Comstock laws" prohibiting contraception for unmarried people were in place, and could be enforced, in some form until 1972, when Supreme Court overturned. We won't go back! Vote them out and change rules for SCOTUS!

[Irish_Dem]

2. Part of the GOP plan is to keep Dems busy with GOP crimes and protecting basic rights.

So we cannot pass other needed legislation.