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GOP senators weigh supporting bill protecting birth control access

Some GOP senators say they are open to seeing what a bill protecting birth control would look like before deciding to support it or not.

Axios

A Quick Breakdown Of The Right To Contraception Act

In the wake of Dobbs, the Democratic-controlled House is passing a flurry of bills to "codify" constitutional rights that are not really in jeopardy. Yesterday, I wrote about the Respect For Marriage Act, which would require a state to recognize same-sex marriages performed in another state. This bill passed with…

Reason

House approves measure to protect the right to contraception

WASHINGTON — The House on Thursday passed legislation that would codify the federal right to contraception, although the measure faces slim odds in the Senate because of GOP concerns about the broadness of the bill.

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195 GOPers oppose right to contraception

Just 8 Republicans supported the bill as Democrats call out the GOP's "assault on women's rights"

Salon

House seeks to protect contraception after Roe changes - Roll Call

Eight Republicans crossed the aisle to join every House Democrat on a bill that would codify the federal right to contraception.

Roll Call

Editorial: Of course Congress should pass a federal right to contraception

This week the U.S. House of Representatives is expected to take up the Right to Contraception Act. The bill, introduced by Rep. Kathy E. Manning, a Democrat from North Carolina, establishes a federal right to contraception — meaning women would have the right to use birth control and medical providers…

Los Angeles Times

Are contraceptives next for SCOTUS?

"I do think the first test is going to be on contraception," one expert said of Clarence Thomas' opinion

Salon

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Scalia's "Prophecy" in Lawrence And The Joint Dissent in Dobbs

That awkward moment when Justice Breyer joins an opinion that criticizes his join in Lawrence.

Reason

Editorial: A devastating defeat for the rights of women

Overturning Roe v. Wade is not the first time the Supreme Court has driven a dagger into the heart of human rights and further divided a deeply troubled nation. But not since the 19th century have there been other decisions so dreadfully indefensible and consequential.

Tribune News Service

Commentary: It’s not paranoia. Supreme Court could come for gay marriage and contraception

Women and LGBTQ people woke up on Friday to a world in which their rights to prevent pregnancies, have sex and marry could vanish with the stroke of a Supreme Court ruling.

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Plan B and contraceptives remain legal in Texas after U.S. Supreme Court ruling on abortion

In the same decision that overruled Roe v. Wade, the U.S. Supreme Court was clear that the constitutional right to access contraceptives remains untouched — though one justice said he would welcome challenges to that right.

The Texas Tribune

Sherif Girgis on the Draft Dobbs Opinion and Its Critics

An assessment of claims that Justice Alito's draft opinion rests on historical error, provides no meaningful basis for distinguishing abortion from other unenumerated rights, and forecloses constitutional protection of the mother's life.

Reason

If Roe falls, some fear repercussions for reproductive care

If the Supreme Court follows through on overturning Roe v

The Independent UK

Ramesh Ponnuru: What’s not going to happen after Roe falls

Since someone leaked a draft of the Supreme Court’s opinion in this year’s big abortion case, two questions have emerged about the scope of conservative policy goals. Will Republicans try to ban abortion by federal statute if Roe v. Wade is overruled, or leave the issue to the states? And…

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Will Dobbs Be a Ticket Good for this Right Only?

What the Alito draft tells us about a possible future for same-sex marriage.

Salon

Alito's abortion screed stains SCOTUS

Alito sneers at rights after "the latter part of the 20th century" — inviting the reversal of 70 years of progress

Los Angeles Times

Jackie Calmes: Republicans hope the justices will keep rolling back rights after striking down Roe v. Wade

At a party of liberal activists to mark the end of the Senate confirmation hearing for Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson, and her likely confirmation as the first Black female justice, the mood in the downtown Washington club this week was upbeat even before funk star Chaka Khan took…

Salon

Republicans ready to roll back SCOTUS

During Ketanji Brown Jackson's hearing, the GOP winked at plans to overturn Supreme Court precedents on marriage

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Republican AG candidates in Michigan criticize 1965 ruling against contraceptive ban

LANSING, Mich. — Two of the three Michigan Republicans who hope to be their party's nominee for attorney general said Monday they oppose bans on contraceptives after publicly criticizing a 1965 U.S. Supreme Court ruling on the subject.

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