Democrats Plan House Vote on Contraceptive Access Next Week

The House will vote next week on creating a statutory right to contraception after the Supreme Court opinion overturning Roe v. Wade prompted concerns that legal cases that have guaranteed access could be reexamined.

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said the bill (H.R. 8373) would protect the availability of birth control established in rulings such as Griswold v. Connecticut by putting it into federal law.

“The House will not sit back and allow extremist Republicans and their judicial appointees to limit Americans’ access to contraception,” Hoyer said in a statement Friday.

The opinion authored by Justice Samuel ...