Mazie Hirono: “as we focus on contraception rights this afternoon, listen to some of the comments made by my Republican male…”

“as we focus on contraception rights this afternoon, listen to some of the comments made by my Republican male colleagues: They are not going to change the law on contraception. There is zero threat of contraception being taken away. Pure hysteria. I have no reason to believe these precedents are going to fall. These are some of the statements made by my Republican colleagues-- all of them male, by the way--have made regarding contraception. ``Pure hysteria,'' they say. This is not pure hysteria to the millions of women across the country who woke up one morning in June and no longer had a constitutional right. When it comes to this far-right, agenda-driven Supreme Court, nothing is off the table and nothing is ``pure hysteria.'' Last month, the far-right majority of the Supreme Court overturned nearly 50 years of precedent and took away the constitutional right to get an abortion. This decision was the result of a decades-long effort by far-right Republicans and rightwing groups to pack the courts with politicians in Roe. And they are just getting started. For this MAGA majority, controlling women's bodies doesn't stop at forcing women to give birth. They actually want to ban contraception. We know this because, in this concurring opinion to overturn Roe, Justice Thomas wrote that the Supreme Court should reconsider--reconsider--the rulings that protect same-sex relationships, marriage equality, and, yes, contraception.…”