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The bill was expected to fail, with Democrats introducing it to strategically expose where Republicans stand on contraception, even as the party repeatedly claims that they’re not targeting it.On Wednesday, Senate Republicans blocked a bill to enshrine a right to obtain and provide the full range of contraception into federal law. The move builds on a growing, disturbing trend of GOP lawmakerswas overturned in 2022. By a 51-39 vote, the bill failed, with Republican senators including Sens.
Republicans claim they don’t support the Right to Contraception Act because there’s “no threat” to birth control and Democrats are “fear-mongering.” Why, then, did Sen. Jodi Ernst say she introduced her own birth control bill to stop any protection of emergency contraception?Ernst, in blocking Wednesday’s bill, has baselessly claimed it would “mandate access to abortion drugs for women and girls of all ages,” dangerously equating birth control and abortion, laying the groundwork to attack both.
distinction: “It does not include Plan B, which many folks on the right would consider abortive services. Big distinction. We want to prevent a pregnancy, not end a pregnancy,” she told CNN this week. This is… both so untrue and so dangerous. Plan B prevents a pregnancy from occurring; abortion ends a pregnancy that’s underway. Under abortion bans, when they’re equated, both can be banned.
Even more concerning, on Tuesday, an anti-abortion doctor who testified as part of a Senate hearing about the impacts of abortion bans also equated IUDs with abortion. “If you look at the package inserts such as the cooper IUD, it actually clearly states that they do prevent implantation even if fertilization has occurred which would classify that as an abortifacient, yes,” the doctor, Dr.
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