Democrats appear to be concentrating on abortion and contraception to motivate supporters in the last days before the midterms.
After Roe v. Wade was overruled, President Joe Biden and other Democrats led a drive to reinstate abortion rights across the country, arguing that the inability to murder unborn children was causing “chaos and agony.”
Activists have recently run TV ads in swing districts and college cities stressing that Republicans aim to make birth contraception illegal.
The group is able to reach more people in nine states because to the use of streaming services like Netflix, Hulu, and YouTube. These states include Arizona, California, Iowa, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, and Texas.
During a conversation in the elevator, one man exclaims, “Did you know they voted against our right to condoms in Washington?”
To his friend’s astonishment, “No, they’re not,” he said.
When asked if there is a bill on contraception, the first man replies, “Yeah, there is a bill on contraception, and 90 percent of Republicans in Congress voted against it,” before listing the “pill, condoms, your girlfriend’s IUD” as examples of what the legislation would criminalize.
The other person couldn’t believe it either, saying, “That makes no sense. Why would anyone vote against the right to condoms, the pill, or IUDs?” That’s precisely what we need!” the group said.
In the House of Representatives, eight Republicans joined Democrats in voting for a bill to establish a legal “right” to contraception.
Included in the Republican group were Representatives Liz Cheney (WY), Brian Fitzpatrick (PA), Anthony Gonzalez (OH), John Katko (NY), Adam Kinzinger (IL), Nancy Mace (SC), Maria Salazar (FL), and Fred Upton (MI) (R-MI).
After the Supreme Court’s decision to overrule Roe v. Wade, Democrats began to express concern that the Court would use future decisions like Griswold v. Connecticut to legalize same-sex marriage, restrict access to contraception, and further expand abortion rights.
When authoring his dissenting opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, Justice Clarence Thomas singled out these three cases as ones the Supreme Court should reconsider. It’s quite unlikely that the Supreme Court will undertake such a detailed analysis of the substantive due process.
Thomas stated that the Court should “examine all of this Court’s substantive due process precedents, including Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell,” because it has a duty to “‘fix the mistake’ perpetrated in prior rulings.”
While Justice Thomas would like to see such a review, the majority decision in Dobbs does not. Justice Samuel Alito said that “nothing in this opinion should be understood to throw doubt on precedents that do not concern abortion.”
As Michael McAdams, communications director for the National Republican Congressional Committee, told USA Today, “Democrats are frightened because their approach of ignoring people’s legitimate economic problems is backfiring, and now they have to turn to fearmonger bogus charges” in light of the ads.
It is still uncertain if there is enough conservative support to make contraception illegal in Congress, but there does not appear to be enough political will among Republican members to do so at this time.