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Republicans get very huffy when people accuse them of hating women and wanting to control pregnant people\u2019s bodies\u2014yet instead of proving that neither of those things are true, they do stuff like:<\/p>\n
Most recently not helping their cause? Refusing to make contraception a federal right, which they insist is totally unnecessary despite all of the above. On Wednesday, Senate Republicans rejected<\/a> the Right to Contraception Act<\/a>, a Democratic bill that would stop the federal government and states from passing laws limiting access to birth control. Speaking to The Washington Post<\/a>,<\/em> Senator Joni Ernst<\/strong> called the bill \u201cfear-mongering,\u201d and introduced one that does not protect access to the morning-after pill. Senator John Cornyn<\/strong> claimed Democrats are holding a \u201cphony vote because contraception to my knowledge is not illegal. It\u2019s not unavailable. To suggest that it\u2019s somehow in jeopardy should be embarrassing, but it\u2019s hard to embarrass some people around here.\u201d<\/p>\n Of course, what people like Cornyn don\u2019t note is that that\u2019s the exact argument Republicans used to make about abortion, before the federal right to the medical procedure was summarily scrapped. Referring to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas<\/strong>\u2019s 2022 declaration that the court \u201cshould reconsider<\/a>\u201d some of its past decisions, including the one protecting access to contraception, Senator Mazie Hirono<\/strong> told<\/a> ABC News: \u201cWhenever a Supreme Court justice, especially in the MAGA far right, says he wants to revisit a case, you can bet that he\u2019s looking to overturn.\u201d In a speech on the Senate floor on Wednesday, Minority Leader Chuck Schumer<\/strong> warned: \u201cA few years ago it was Roe.<\/em> A few years from now it could be something else. We are kidding ourselves if we think the hard right is done with their attacks on reproductive rights.\u201d<\/p>\n Last month, Donald Trump<\/strong> was asked in an interview, \u201cDo you support any restrictions on a person\u2019s right to contraception?\u201d And rather than saying a simple \u201cno,\u201d he responded: \u201cWe\u2019re looking at that, and I\u2019m gonna have a policy on that very shortly, and I think it\u2019s something that you\u2019ll find\u00a0interesting. And it\u2019s another issue that\u2019s very interesting, but you will find it,\u00a0I think, very smart;\u00a0I think it\u2019s a smart decision. But we\u2019ll be releasing it very soon.\u201d<\/p>\n This content can also be viewed on the site it originates<\/a> from.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nX content<\/h4>\n