Republicans Proudly Declare They’re Against Making Contraception a Federal Right

Republicans get very huffy when folks accuse them of hating ladies and wanting to manage pregnant folks’s our bodies—but as an alternative of proving that neither of these issues are true, they do stuff like:

Most not too long ago not serving to their trigger? Refusing to make contraception a federal proper, which they insist is completely pointless regardless of all the above. On Wednesday, Senate Republicans rejected the Right to Contraception Act, a Democratic invoice that may cease the federal authorities and states from passing legal guidelines limiting entry to contraception. Speaking to The Washington Post, Senator Joni Ernst referred to as the invoice “fear-mongering,” and launched one that doesn’t shield entry to the morning-after tablet. Senator John Cornyn claimed Democrats are holding a “phony vote because contraception to my knowledge is not illegal. It’s not unavailable. To suggest that it’s somehow in jeopardy should be embarrassing, but it’s hard to embarrass some people around here.”

Of course, what folks like Cornyn don’t word is that that’s the precise argument Republicans used to make about abortion, earlier than the federal proper to the medical process was summarily scrapped. Referring to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’s 2022 declaration that the court docket “should reconsider” a few of its previous selections, together with the one defending entry to contraception, Senator Mazie Hirono informed ABC News: “Whenever a Supreme Court justice, especially in the MAGA far right, says he wants to revisit a case, you can bet that he’s looking to overturn.” In a speech on the Senate ground on Wednesday, Minority Leader Chuck Schumer warned: “A few years ago it was Roe. A few years from now it could be something else. We are kidding ourselves if we think the hard right is done with their attacks on reproductive rights.”

Last month, Donald Trump was requested in an interview, “Do you support any restrictions on a person’s right to contraception?” And somewhat than saying a easy “no,” he responded: “We’re looking at that, and I’m gonna have a policy on that very shortly, and I think it’s something that you’ll find interesting. And it’s another issue that’s very interesting, but you will find it, I think, very smart; I think it’s a smart decision. But we’ll be releasing it very soon.”