House Passes 'Right to Contraception' Bill Republicans Say Violates Religious Freedom - The Minnesota Sun

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% :"The Payouts for Planned Parenthood Act goes FAR beyond supporting access to contraception," Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA-05) tweeted.
46% : The Democrat-led House passed a bill Thursday, with the support of eight Republicans, that would create a federal right to access contraception, a measure that most Republicans say violates religious freedom.
44% : In overturning Roe v. Wade, Thomas suggested the Court should reconsider other rulings, such as those concerning same-sex marriage and contraception.
41% : As the Washington Examiner reported, the bill is one of the pieces of legislation Democrats contrived in an immediate response to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas' note in his concurring opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, in which the Court returned decisions about abortion to the states.
40% : Following Thomas' opinion, House Democrats quickly set out, with 47 Republicans supporting them, to pass a bill to codify same-sex marriage into federal law.
37% : Additionally, the measure could allow Planned Parenthood to receive more federal funding."HR 8373 will also continue President Joe Biden's war on religious liberty and conscience protections," Rodgers said Thursday, according to the Examiner.
34% : "Its extreme provisions could harm women's health, send taxpayer dollars to Planned Parenthood & abortion providers, & force people to violate their religious and sincerely held beliefs."
24% :An example of such policy, Smith said, would be former President Donald Trump's Protect Life Rule which prohibited taxpayer funds to abortion clinics and redirected them to other family planning programs that did not perform or condone abortion as a method of family planning.

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