Editorial: Of course Congress should pass a federal right to contraception

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

This week the U.S. House of Representatives is expected to take up the Right to Contraception Act. The bill, introduced by Rep. Kathy Manning, a Democrat from North Carolina, establishes a federal right to contraception — meaning women would have the right to use birth control and medical providers and pharmacies the right to provide it.

This bill would put into law a right that the Supreme Court addressed three times over the past half century, when it granted married couples the freedom to use birth control in Griswold vs. Connecticut in 1965, then in two other cases when the right to contraception was extended to unmarried people and then to minors.

Contraception is recognized internationally as preventive healthcare and an essential tool for women to plan the course of their lives. But as we have learned in the last month, the conservative majority of the Supreme Court has no problem overturning precedents. Alarmingly, Justice Clarence Thomas, in his concurrence in the Dobbs vs. Jackson Women's Health Organization decision, urged the court to reexamine Griswold as well as the 2015 Obergefell decision granting same-sex couples the right to marry and the 2003 Lawrence decision that overturned laws prohibiting gay sex. Given that the court just overturned Roe vs. Wade, it's impossible to disregard the possibility that these other essential freedoms are now at risk.

Every single member of Congress should vote for the Right to Contraception Act. But if the squabbling over the bill in the Rules Committee on Monday is any indication, that won’t be the case. And that’s an outrage.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/editorial-of-course-congress-should-pass-a-federal-right-to-contraception/ar-AAZLqRg

[TreasonousBastard]

1. Trying to overturn Griswold just might be the straw we've been looking for. Anti-abortion types....

have an argument or two they can use to impress the drones, but only the most reactionary ones would go after contraception.

[Going to Canada]

2. Republicans need to modernize

This is such a weird time to be alive. It is truly like Cern has pushed us into an alternative universe. What the neck has happened to America?

[Irish_Dem]

3. The US turned into a fascist theocracy.

I know, it is unbelievable.

Oh that is an interesting theory. They always said that messing with a particle collider could produce all kinds of weird side effects.

Maybe we got pushed into Hitler/Stalin part two by mistake.

[multigraincracker]

4. Something in the water?

City water seems less crazy than rural water.

[Irish_Dem]

5. In part it is Putin and Xi causing as much trouble as possible in the US.

To weaken the US. Of course the GOP is only too happy to help.

All the GOP meetings with Putin were serious work meetings.

[murielm99]

6. I'm rural.

We have a well.

[multigraincracker]

7. Me too. 185 foot deep thru pure sand.

comes out great. But not every well is the same.