CV NEWS FEED // Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-NY, announced that the chamber will vote this Wednesday on a bill that would define a so-called “right to contraception,” ramping up a long-planned Democratic Party pro-abortion messaging blitz ahead of the 2024 election.
“Before the [Memorial Day] break, I began the process for the Senate to consider the Right to Contraception Act, led by Senators [Ed] Markey [D-MA] and [Mazie] Hirono [D-HI],” Schumer wrote in a letter to his Senate colleagues Sunday. “Members should expect to vote on that legislation on Wednesday this week. And there will be more action to come after that.”
Per Courthouse News Service,
[i]f made law, the bill … would clarify federal law to ensure that it is legal for Americans to access contraception and for health care providers to distribute it. The measure would also make it illegal for the federal government or states to restrict access to contraception.
Schumer has made it clear that the pro-contraception push is only the tip of iceberg of a much broader so-called “reproductive rights” agenda.
The Senate Majority Leader wrote in the same letter that, this month, “America will mark a dark and somber anniversary.”
“June 24th will be two years since a radical MAGA majority on the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade,” Schumer continued:
There’s no question in the American people’s minds that Republicans have brought our country to this point. And as Donald Trump reminded us recently, he is “proudly the person responsible” for the annihilation of Roe v. Wade and grotesque reversal of women’s personal freedoms.
Democrats have been clear we will not stand for these attacks and we will fight to preserve reproductive freedoms.
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Some observers have noted that if the bill is enacted, it would effectively deem subjecting minors to so-called “gender-affirming care” a “right.”
American Principles Project (APP) President Terry Schilling wrote on X (formerly Twitter) Monday afternoon: “Democrats are calling this the ‘Right to Contraception Act,’ but they define ‘contraception’ to include all sterilization procedures.”
“That’s a TROJAN HORSE that would appear to include sex change procedures,” Schilling continued:
The bill also defines “contraceptive” explicitly to include all sterilizing drugs, devices, and biological products “whether specifically intended to prevent pregnancy or for other health needs…” and it establishes a “clear and comprehensive right” to access these “contraceptives.”
Here’s where this gets crazy. The bill actually REQUIRES judges to interpret this language “liberally” – meaning that the second a Biden activist judge gets an opportunity to “interpret” this law, they’re going to find an explicit right to sex changes.
“It’s going to happen,” Schilling emphasized. “And Senate Democrats know this.”
“The bill SUPERSEDES all state law,” the APP president indicated. “No state can enforce so much as a ‘limitation’ on these procedures unless they can show that the limitation actually ‘significantly advances access’ – an impossible hurdle.”
“I don’t want to mince my words here. This is an evil bill,” Schilling concluded.
Axios reported Sunday:
Keeping the issue [of abortion] front and center could boost support for President Biden in swing states likely to decide the presidential election, including Pennsylvania, Arizona and Nevada, notes [Axios’ Stef] Kight, who first reported on Democrats’ plans to zero in on reproductive rights [sic] this month.
On May 22, Kight indicated that Schumer was planning in June “to zero in on reproductive rights … potentially forcing Republicans to take tough votes on issues such as contraception and in vitro fertilization.”
“The move is meant to tap into the potency of abortion rights as a voter-turnout generator for Democrats five months from Election Day,” she explained. “It’s timed to roughly coincide with the two-year anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade, on June 24.”
In a Sunday X (formerly Twitter) post, Andrew Desiderio of Punchbowl News noted that the upcoming vote is a sign that Democrats are “looking to squeeze [Republicans] on abortion after [a] show vote on” a controversial border deal last month.
The Hill reported: “Schumer forced Republicans to take a second vote on the border security deal … after they blocked it in February, when it was attached to a $95 billion emergency foreign aid package.”
Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-AK, “was the only Republican to vote for the border security bill in May when it came to the Senate floor for a second time,” The Hill added.
