Senate Will Take Up Contraception Rights Bill After Trump Comments
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced Wednesday that the Senate will take up a bill to protect access to contraception nationally, following comments from Donald Trump that he would support contraception restrictions in states if elected President.
"Now more than ever, contraception is a critical piece of protecting women's reproductive freedoms," Schumer said of the bill which would codify access to contraception as a "fundamental right."
The bill will serve as a critical test for Republicans heading into the Fall election, after the party has waffled on support for contraception and In Vitro Fertilization (IVF), both popular among the American public, following the overturning of Roe v. Wade in 2022. Trump himself backtracked on his comments in an interview with a Pittsburgh CBS affiliate, during which he said he would support the right of states to ban the morning-after pill.
Trump immediately took to social media when the interview went public to claim that he would "never advocate imposing restrictions on birth control or other contraceptives."
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