"For decades, the forced-birth crowd pooh-poohed pro-choice activists’ warnings that partisan right-wing judges were out to gut #RoeVWade. “Hysterical!” “Fearmongering!”
Then the six-person radical majority shredded nearly 50 years of precedent to deprive women of bodily autonomy"
MAGA Republicans tip their hand: They’re after contraception, too
https://wapo.st/45h4Cbn
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"Next, #Democrats warned that #Republicans were after #IVF. “Absurd!” Well, Republicans in #Congress voted against protection for IVF. #Alabama effectively #banned it before a backlash forced a reversal.
By now, you would think Democrats’ warnings that Republicans are coming after #ReproductiveRights, including #contraception, would be heeded."
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By now, you would think #Democrats’ warnings that #Republicans are coming after #RreproductiveRights, including contraception, would be heeded. But, predictably, Republicans cry foul and deny any thought of snatching away contraception access.
Ah, but along came #felon and former president #DonaldTrump who let slip he was “looking at” #contraception restrictions"
#Women #WomensRights #BirthControl #Abortion #HumanRights #Trump #GOP #Politics #USPolitics #US #USA #News
"And — no surprise — #Republicans again showed their stripes last week. Senate Majority Leader Charles E. #Schumer taunted Republicans before calling for a vote on bill offering national protection for #contraception.
“This week and in future weeks, #Senate Republicans will have to answer for their #antiabortion, anti-women agenda,” he said. “And my Republican colleagues should know that the #American people are closely watching.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/06/10/maga-contraception-vote/
"The bill was straightforward. “The #Democratic bill... would have prevented states from passing laws that limit access to #contraception, including hormonal #BirthControl and intrauterine devices,” The Post reported. Nine #Republicans ducked the #vote; all other #male Republicans voted against it. Two #female Republicans and all #Democrats present voted for it."
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“What message do we want to send our constituents? That we support their right to #BirthControl? That we support access to #IUDs, to #PlanB? Or that we are okay taking that right away, and letting #politicians make #medical decisions for #women in this country,” she said. “I know where I stand — with the overwhelming majority of people who support that right. And soon we will know exactly where every #Republican senator stands, too.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/06/10/maga-contraception-vote/
"Republicans, authors of a nonstop stream of legislative stunts... hollered it was a “stunt.” It was just about getting out the #Democrats’ message, they scoffed.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), one of only two #Republicans to vote for the bill, in a #video replied that if it is a “messaging” bill, that “I want my #message to be very clear — a #woman has a right to #contraception.” Her fellow Republicans’ voting 'no' obviously did not."
“Democrats pointed to Republican opposition to #contraception legislation — including #GOP Gov. Glenn Youngkin of #Virginia vetoing a similar bill... Some #Republican lawmakers in #Oklahoma also pushed legislation that could have outlawed intrauterine devices, and some #Republicans oppose the ‘morning-after pill’ that helps prevent pregnancies.”
Federal contraception protection seems rather important, that is, if you want to protect contraception."
"The #Republican Study Committee... supporting both a fetal personhood bill & a ban on #mifepristone (used to treat miscarriages & ectopic pregnancies).
In other words, protection for access to #contraception is necessary when the MAGA-celebrated #Dobbs decision effectively removes federal protection & #Republicans at both the state & federal level aim at “fetal personhood” bills that would outlaw #abortion, #IVF & some forms of contraception."
"Voters have every reason to fear a #GOP -held #Congress would pass nationwide #abortion ban and “fetal personhood” measures. They know that is true because #Republicans continue to press these measures and simultaneously vote to block measures to protect #IVF and #contraception. And no one seriously believes that if elected on the strength of white #Christian evangelicals’ support that #Trump would veto such bills."
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