In the wake of Republican restrictions on reproductive rights, Democrats are introducing bills to protect birth control and contraception.
Voters across the demographic and political spectrum believe that contraception is at risk. Protecting access to contraception is deeply important to them.
Republican lawmakers’ views on contraception do not align with the views of a vast majority of Americans. A new nationwide poll shows that voters across the demographic and political spectrum believe that contraception is at risk, and that protecting access to contraception is deeply important to them.Eight in 10 voters support The Right to Contraception Act.
Voters say they’d be more likely to vote for their member of Congress if they support The Right to Contraception Act and less likely to vote for them if they oppose it .By a 28-point margin, voters say they’re concerned that the Supreme Court will overturn the constitutional right to contraception .
Republicans have fought increased access to contraception in the courts as well. After the Obama administration instituted a contraceptive mandate under the Affordable Care Act in 2012, conservative groups filed a lawsuit seeking an exemption for employers from having to comply with the law. In the 2014 ruling in, the Supreme Court allowed privately held companies to refuse to cover contraception in their employee health insurance plans.
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