House Democrats to vote this week on codifying right to contraception

By Cassidy Morrison

Published July 18, 2022 9:21pm ET

House Democrats to vote this week on codifying right to contraception — Margot Riphagen of New Orleans, La., wears a birth control pills costume as she protests in front of the Supreme Court in Washington, Tuesday, March 25, 2014, as the court heard oral arguments in the challenges of President Barack Obama's health care law requirement that businesses provide their female employees with health insurance that includes access to contraceptives. Supreme Court justices are weighing whether corporations have religious rights that exempt them from part of the new health care law that requires coverage of birth control for employees at no extra charge. | (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

House Democrats have advanced a bill to establish a statutory right to contraception, part of the party’s reaction to the Supreme Court‘s ruling last month that there is no constitutional right to an abortion.

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