“It’s going to be up to Republicans to choose whether they want to protect the right to contraception,” Senator Edward J. Markey, Democrat of Massachusetts and the sponsor of the failed Senate bill, said in an interview before the governor’s veto.
Mr. Markey called the Dobbs decision “a preview of coming atrocities.”On Wednesday, Mr. Markey and Representative Kathy Manning, Democrat of North Carolina, reintroduced legislation to create a national right to contraception.
With the House now controlled by Republicans and Senate Democrats well short of the 60 votes needed to break a filibuster, the legislation is most likely dead on arrival in Washington.
Polls have consistently shown broad bipartisan support for access to contraception, and while Republicans may not be eager to enshrine a right to it in federal law, neither do they generally want to ban it.
Still, some opposition to birth control does exist.
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“, Edward J, Markey, Kathy Manning
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Democrat, Republicans, Senate Democrats, Roman Catholic Church, American College of Obstetricians, and Drug Administration
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