ICYMI: GOP Crusade Against Abortion Could Lead To Contraception Bans [HuffPost]

Key Point: “If Republicans get what they want…it would kick the issue back to the states and open the door to restrictions or bans on birth control methods, because there would be no federal guarantee of access.”

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HuffPost: GOP Crusade Against Abortion Could Lead To Contraception Bans
By Amanda Terkel
May 11, 2022

Key Points:

• With Roe v. Wade on the chopping block, Republicans have increasingly been speaking up about other Supreme Court cases they don’t like.

• One of the cases that’s coming up is Griswold v. Connecticut, the 1965 decision that said married couples have a right to contraception access.

• In Arizona, GOP Senate candidate Blake Masters’ campaign website said he would only support judges “who understand that Roe and Griswold and Casey were wrongly decided, and that there is no constitutional right to abortion.”

• In Pennsylvania, GOP Senate candidate Jeff Bartos called Griswold a “terrible decision.”

• If Republicans get what they want ― an overturning of Griswold ― it would kick the issue back to the states and open the door to restrictions or bans on birth control methods, because there would be no federal guarantee of access.

• In Senate races, Masters said he backs it. Pennsylvania GOP Senate candidate Dave McCormick said he believes life begins at conception. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), who is up for reelection, said it’s “irrefutable” that life begins at conception in 2012. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), who is also running this cycle, has backed personhood bills.

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