Less than a month after the Supreme Court overturned abortion rights, Senate Republicans blocked a bill that would have protected the right to contraceptives.
There was a request to pass the bill by unanimous consent. If a senator does not agree with the request, it is rejected.
The Democrats' bill could fund abortion providers and protect abortion-inducing drugs, according to the Democrats' bill.
Fears that the high court may come for reproductive health care next led the House to pass the right to contraceptive act. The Supreme Court should reexamine precedent that guaranteed the right to contraception according to an opinion from justice Clarence Thomas.
The legislation would codify protections for physicians who provide contraceptives and create a statutory right for people to use contraceptives.
195 Republicans in the House voted against it.
Her bill would allow over-the-counter access to contraceptives. Democrats said it wouldn't stop states from banning birth control.
The bill fails to codify the constitutional right to birth control across the United States.
The right to buy and use contraceptives is protected by the Supreme Court's 1966 decision.
Republicans who downplayed the threat to abortion before the Supreme Court struck it down are the same ones who dismiss the threat to other rights.
Bills to restrict access to contraceptives have not been passed.
The bill protecting contraception may not get a vote on the Senate floor because of the busy calendar.
A bill protecting same-sex marriages has picked up steam in the Senate, but it doesn't have enough GOP votes to break a filibuster, according to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer.
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