MAJORITY OF HOUSE REPUBLICANS VOTE TO OPPOSE ACCESS TO CONTRACEPTION
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 21, 2022
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MAJORITY OF HOUSE REPUBLICANS VOTE TO OPPOSE ACCESS TO CONTRACEPTION
Anti-choice extremists are directly threatening fundamental rights and freedoms across the country
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, 195 House Republicans voted against a bill to protect access to contraception nationwide, doubling down on their extreme, anti-choice agenda after previously voting against codifying Roe v. Wade into law. Senate Republicans, meanwhile, recently opposed a bill that would protect the right to travel between states to access abortion care, and have pushed for a nationwide abortion ban without exceptions for rape or incest. These votes make clear that anti-choice extremists and their agenda are a direct threat to the fundamental rights and freedoms of the American people.
While President Biden and his administration are taking action to defend our fundamental freedoms, including the right to travel and use contraception, Republicans in Congress have made it clear that they will stop at nothing to restrict our rights and ban abortion nationwide:
- Huffington Post: 195 House Republicans Voted Against Birth Control Protections
- Vanity Fair: Mitch McConnell Acknowledges a National Abortion Ban is “Possible” if Roe is Overturned
This extreme, anti-choice agenda is putting the lives of women and girls at risk across the country – and is vastly out of step with the priorities of most Americans, who overwhelmingly support the freedoms to access abortion, travel, and use contraception:
- NPR: Poll: Majorities oppose Supreme Court’s abortion ruling and worry about other rights
- By a 57%-to-36% margin, respondents said the decision was mostly based on politics as opposed to the law.
- And by a 56%-to-41% margin are concerned that the overturning of Roe will be used by the Supreme Court to reconsider past rulings that protect contraception, same-sex relationships, and same-sex marriage.
- FiveThirtyEight: How Americans Feel About Abortion And Contraception
- Strikingly, around 90 percent of Americans said condoms and birth control pills should be legal in “all” or “most” cases, and 81 percent said the same of IUDs (intrauterine devices).
President Biden stands with the vast majority of Americans in strong opposition to House and Senate Republicans’ extreme agenda to restrict travel, abortion access, and contraception – and he and his administration are going to keep fighting to defend our fundamental rights and freedoms.
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