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A news conference on the Right to Contraception Act outside the U.S. Capitol on June 5, 2024. , a Democrat-led measure that would have codified the right to contraception into federal law. The final vote was 51 in favor and 39 against, with just two Republicans joining Democrats and Independents in support of the bill.
The decision comes just one day after Sen. Patty Murray chaired a hearing on the impact of abortion bans post-, in which reproductive rights experts and women affected by bans testified to the grave harm of these laws. In a statement after the vote, President Biden said,“Today’s vote comes two days before the 59th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in, which established that the fundamental right to privacy protects the ability to make deeply personal decisions free from the interference of politicians, including to access contraception.
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