It’s unclear if the legislation will pass but the vote serves as a sign of a dynamic that will play out in Congress as the election draws closer
- US Senate to vote on bill to recognize legal right to contraception
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The Senate’s top Democrat Chuck Schumer argued yesterday that legislation protecting contraception access is a necessary response to the supreme court’s overturning of Roe v Wade in 2022.
That decision was authored by five of the conservative justices appointed by Republicans presidents, three of whom were handpicked by Donald Trump.
Supporting federal protections for contraceptives should be definition of simple and commonsense and easy to choose, too. The bill we will vote on tomorrow simply says if you want to access birth control, or if you’re a health care provider wanting to prescribe birth control, the government has no right to interfere. Doesn’t that seem like common sense? After all, access to birth control is something ninety percent of Americans support.
Of course, we’re already hearing the same predictable, tired, and unpersuasive retorts from the other side. That this vote is somehow unnecessary, that birth control could never possibly be at risk, that this is much ado about nothing. That is simply not true.
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