Thursday, July 21, 2022

Republicans Want Sex Control

The House of Representatives just passed a bill codifying the right to access contraception by a vote of 228-195. Democrats produced the bill in response to the Supreme Court's decision to toss Roe v. Wade, taking a machete to the concept of the right to privacy in the process. Even if you ignore the explicit threat in Justice Clarence Thomas's concurring opinion to next go after 1965's Griswold v. Connecticut, which first established privacy as an unenumerated constitutional right while throwing out a Connecticut law banning contraceptives, it seems logical that the Supreme Court could, in the near future, choose to allow states to ban or restrict access to IUDs. All 195 votes against the bill were from House Republicans.

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