The Home handedthe Proper to Contraception Act on Thursday ― a invoice that codifies the appropriate to contraception and different contraceptives amid fears that the Supreme Court docket might come for that facet of reproductive well being care subsequent after the excessive courtroom repealed Roe v. Wade’s safety of abortion rights final month.
The invoice handed regardless of 195 Republicans who voted towards the invoice in a ultimate vote of 228 to 195. Republicans who voted towards the laws included Reps. Matt Gaetz (Fla.), Paul Gosar (Ariz.), Jack Bergman (Mich.) and Joe Wilson (S.C.). Simply eight Republicans voted in favor of the invoice.
The Senate lately launched a companion measure that may possible see a vote someday subsequent week. Regardless of the flurry of motion on reproductive rights within the Home, all the lately handed well being care rights payments are possible doomed to die by filibuster within the Senate.
The Proper to Contraception Act, launched by Rep. Kathy Manning (D-N.C.), codifies the appropriate to contraception into federal legislation by making a statutory proper for folks to acquire and use contraceptives, in addition to codifying protections for physicians who present contraceptives. The invoice protects a variety of contraceptives accepted by the Meals and Drug Administration and defines contraception as any “motion taken to forestall being pregnant, together with using contraceptives or fertility-awareness primarily based strategies, and sterilization procedures.”
The invoice authorizes the Division of Justice to take civil motion towards any federal or state official who makes an attempt to limit contraception entry, and it permits these affected to additionally take civil motion towards anybody who makes an attempt to implement any restriction on contraception.
“It's clear that their makes an attempt to roll again the clock on contraception is once more one other plank on their excessive agenda for American girls,” Home Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) mentioned at a Wednesday information convention earlier than the vote.
“Allow us to be clear: We're not going again ― for our daughters, for our granddaughters,” Pelosi added.
The laws is a direct response to Justice Clarence Thomas, who wrote in a concurring opinion within the ruling that overturned Roe that the courtroom also needs to rethink the landmark 1965 resolution in Griswold v. Connecticut, which protects the appropriate to purchase and use contraceptives with out authorities interference.
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