House Democrats set the stage for votes codifying same-sex marriage and protecting access to contraception during a Judiciary Committee hearing Thursday highlighting the sweep of the Supreme Court opinion that overturned the constitutional right to an abortion.
The hearing comes as part of a scramble among congressional Democrats to respond, while they hold control of Congress and the White House, to last month’s decision overturning the 49-year-old Roe v. Wade decision guaranteeing a right to an abortion.
Legal experts at the hearing and outside of it have argued that the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health makes other rights, like same-sex marriage, same-sex relationships and contraception, vulnerable.
