Democrats want to force Senate GOP to vote on contraception

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: The Hill

05/22/24 12:14 PM ET


Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) announced Wednesday the Senate will vote next month on legislation to protect women’s access to contraception, setting up a campaign issue for the fall.

Democrats expect Republicans to block the bill, just as they have blocked legislation protecting access to in vitro fertilization, which Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) said included “poison pills.”

Schumer announced that the Senate has begun the process to consider the Right to Contraception Act, which would codify the right to contraception established by the landmark Supreme Court decision in Griswold v. Connecticut.

Democrats say that right is now at risk because of the conservative majority’s opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which overturned the right to abortion established by Roe v. Wade. “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.

Read more: https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/4679670-democrats-want-to-force-senate-gop-to-vote-on-contraception/mlite/

[Midnight Writer]

1. That's the ticket. Get them on recorded votes with what they really want. Expose them for who they are.

[Hekate]

2. KnR

[sheshe2]

3. Yes.

Get the idiots on record, say it out loud.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

4. This will let the public know who are the leaders in the GOP War on Women.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

5. Get the MAGA/GOP on the record.

Because the issue of Birth Control is a winner even with Republican women to avoid having to choose motherhood if they are not ready.

Draconian laws regarding Contraception access is a loser issue for Republicans.

[getagrip_already]

6. Unfortunately all we will get them on the record for is a cloture vote

And not the actual bill.

We have to eliminate the fillibuster.

[BumRushDaShow]

7. Blocking a vote to at least debate and do an up or down vote

is proof enough. That's basically all the "modern" cloture Rule is - a lazy way to filibuster without bothering to debate the merits of the business at hand.

[elleng]

8. 'setting up a campaign issue for the fall.'