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Today, House Democrats passed the Right to Contraception Act to enshrine women’s and families’ right to access contraception into federal law – but Ashley Hinson and Mariannette Miller-Meeks voted no. This legislation comes in response to the Supreme Court’s threat to revisit settled law like Griswold v. Connecticut, following the Republican-stacked Court’s decision to overturn 50 years of precedent and rip away the right for women to access reproductive health care.
As a reminder, Hinson and Miller-Meeks have also:
- Cosponsored a nationwide abortion ban with no exceptions for rape, incest, or danger to the life of the mother.
- Twice voted against the Woman’s Health and Protection Act, which would protect a woman’s right to abortion.
- Voted against the Ensuring Access to Abortion Act, which would safeguard a woman’s right to travel to another state to receive an abortion if their state bans the medical procedure. This bill would stop states from putting a bounty on the heads of women, families and doctors who assist in obtaining the abortion.
Despite trying to hide and rewrite their extreme record of trying to rip away women’s rights and take Iowa backward, their vote today makes clear where they stand.
“Ashley Hinson and Mariannette Miller-Meeks have tried to paper over their out-of-touch anti-choice record, but their vote today against decades of legal precedent makes their position crystal clear,” said DCCC spokesperson Elena Kuhn. “Iowa women know that Hinson and Miller-Meeks are unequivocally against their reproductive freedom.”
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