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On the recordDecember 5, 2024
As I rise today, women's basic reproductive freedoms are under relentless attack by rightwing politicians and judges across the country. Over 2 years ago, Donald Trump's hand-picked MAGA Supreme Court Justices overturned Roe v. Wade, dismantling 50 years of judicial precedent. This catastrophic decision has left one in three women living under outright abortion bans and unleashed a coordinated effort to undermine the full range of reproductive healthcare, including access to birth control. In his concurring opinion in the Dobbs case, Justice Clarence Thomas explicitly called for revisiting the right to contraception. Despite the fact that over 90 percent of women rely on contraception at some point in their lives, extremist Republicans have seized on this as a rallying cry to target birth control. In Oklahoma, Republican lawmakers have proposed radical legislation to outlaw widely used forms of contraception, including IUDs and the morning-after pill. In States like Virginia, Arizona, Tennessee, and North Carolina, extremist Republicans have blocked efforts to protect access to contraception. Adding to this alarming trend, Trump's Project 2025 blueprint outlines a dangerous agenda to further dismantle reproductive healthcare, including targeting emergency contraception and insurance coverage for birth control. Despite his campaign claims of ignorance about Project 2025, Trump is now staffing his administration with the very architects of this extreme agenda.…
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Kathy Manning
Democratic · North Carolina
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Dec 5, 2024

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