The Senate is set to vote on access to contraception Wednesday as part of a broader effort to bring reproductive rights to the center in the run-up to the election.
Washington — The Senate is scheduled to vote Wednesday on legislation to protect access to contraception, as Democrats work to put reproductive rights at center stage heading into November's election.The bill, called the Right to Contraception Act, would codify the right to contraception in federal law. For Senate Democrats, the effort has been a long time coming.
'I would hope that protecting access to birth control would be the definition of an easy, uncontroversial decision here in the Senate. But the vote will tell all when we gavel in tomorrow.'Still, support for the bill is expected to fall short in Wednesday's vote. Though it passed the then-Democratic-controlled House in 2022, efforts to pass the bill in the Senate by unanimous consent have been blocked by Republicans on two occasions.
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