“Today, Republicans showed the American people where they stand: no abortions, and no birth control to prevent the need for one.”
— and affirmed Americans’ right to privacy and with it: their right to contraception. So you’d think this would be a settled issue. And for the vast majority of Americans — it is,” Murray said. “Yet, as we just saw, somehow — in the year 2022 — this isn’t a settled issue for Republican politicians.”.
Ernst falsely said that the bill includes unrelated provisions to fund abortion providers and abortifacients — claims that that the bill’s proponents sayRepublicans have been lying about the effects of birth control, saying that hormonal contraceptive methods that preempt fertilization by stopping ovaries from releasing an egg are abortifacients — a lieThis fabrication is likely spouted by Republicans as a purposeful obfuscation of their true stances of opposing contraception access.
Proponents of the bill have pointed out that the bill is narrowly tailored to only address contraceptive access. Last week, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez criticized the 195 House Republicans who voted against the bill,The “GOP are descending into an extremism that many didn’t think was real,” she wrote. “They are expanding to attack the right to contraception, and we cannot let them. This vote is the first step.
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