Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer teed up legislation for June that would codify national access to contraception.
teased he could back contraception restrictions and as Democrats campaign on women’s reproductive health as the party’s primary policy issue ahead of the November elections.
“Now more than ever, contraception is a critical piece of protecting women’s reproductive freedoms, standing as nothing short of a vital lifeline for millions of American women across the country,” Schumer said on the Senate floor. The bill, led by Sens. Ed Markey and Mazie Hirono , would render contraception a “fundamental right” at the national level. Access to birth control has been in the spotlight afterSenate Republicans earlier this year blocked the unanimous passage of a bill to protect access to in vitro fertilization, following a controversial Alabama Supreme Court ruling that embryos were children.
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