Republicans proudly proclaim their opposition to making contraception a federal right

Republicans get angry when people accuse them of hating women and wanting to control pregnant people’s bodies — yet instead of proving that neither of those things are true, they do things like:

Most recently not helping their cause? Refuse to make contraception a federal right, which they assert is completely unnecessary despite all of the above. On Wednesday, Senate Republicans discarded object Contraceptive Rights Act, a Democratic bill aimed at preventing the federal government and states from passing laws restricting access to birth control. Talking to The Washington Post, Senator Joni Ernst called the bill “fear-mongering” and presented a bill that does not protect access to the morning-after pill. Senator John Cornyn claimed Democrats were staging a “sham vote because contraception to my knowledge is not illegal. It is not available. To say that it is somehow in danger is embarrassing, but it’s hard to shame some people around here.”

Of course, what people like Cornyn fail to note is that that’s exactly the argument Republicans used to make about abortion, before federal rights to the medical procedure were immediately repealed. Refers to Supreme Court Justice Clarence ThomasThe court’s 2022 statement “should reconsider” several past decisions, including one protecting access to contraception, Sen. Mazie Hirono speak ABC News: “Whenever a Supreme Court justice, especially in the far-right group MAGA, says he wants to revisit a case, you can bet he’s looking to overturn it. ” In a speech on the Senate floor Wednesday, Minority Leader Chuck Schumer warns: “A few years ago Egg. A few years from now it could be something else. We’re kidding ourselves if we think the hard right is being served by their attack on reproductive rights.”

Last month, Donald Trump was asked in an interview, “Do you support any restrictions on a person’s right to contraception?” And instead of simply saying “no,” he responded: “We’re looking at that and I’ll be making a policy on that soon and I think that’s something you’ll find interesting. And that’s another very interesting problem, but I think you’ll find it very clever; I think it was a smart decision. But we will release it soon.”