Nearly every House Republican voted against the Right to Contraception Act. What do you make of this? Is banning contraception next on the Republican Party's agenda?
The House passed the Right to Contraception Act this morning with support from just 8 Republicans.
It's a very simple bill. The operative part is as follows:
A person has a statutory right under this Act to obtain contraceptives and to engage in contraception, and a health care provider has a corresponding right to provide contraceptives, contraception, and information related to contraception.
The rest is just some boilerplate and legal technicalities, and contraception is defined as "an action taken to prevent pregnancy" (so the "a" word the filter won't let me use is not relevant here).
What gives? It's hard not to see this as evidence that the Republican Party wants to ban or otherwise limit access to contraception.