What Is Next For The Right To Contraception Act After Republicans In The Senate Blocked It

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On "Forbes Newsroom," attorney Harry Nelson spoke about the Right to Contraception Act following its defeat in the Senate by Republicans, and why Democrats are claiming that it is under threat.

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00:00Now this vote today failed 51 to 39. It did not clear the filibuster but Chuck

00:05Schumer changed his vote to a no I think so he could bring the bill forward again.

00:10So what's next for the Right to Contraception Act? Yeah we're definitely

00:14going to see this issue surfacing again closer to November and and I think that

00:20that as you indicated you know seeing that the majority leader Schumer is is

00:24reversing and wanting to push this issue out further is a decision about when

00:29this is going to really capture maximal attention. It's very clear that you know

00:34the issue in since the Dobbs decision in June of 2022 we've had two years of many

00:40many successes for Democratic candidates and on in election cycles in those two

00:46years where the the issues around public popular support for reproductive health

00:51access and greater liberalization in this area is something that voters

00:57support so that clearly the Democratic leadership wants to you know time this

01:02issue right to get attention to it and make this an issue that drives things so

01:06I think we're gonna see this issue come up sometime in the next in the next how

01:11long do we have five months so a little bit under so it's gonna be I promise you

01:16this will be in front of the Senate again within within the before the

01:20summer's over. I would think that the Republican side might want a victory

01:26here right something that protects the right to birth control that they could

01:31then tout in the November elections but that doesn't necessarily seem to be what

01:36we saw here with the vote today. Why do you think? I think look I think the

01:41Republican Party has to navigate between a small part of the electorate a minority

01:48who are you know in the strongly pro-life camp for whom you know contraception is

01:54not a is an unpopular issue and where these forms of contraception that can

01:59actually be used in the immediate aftermath to prevent a pregnancy for I

02:05think for several days after are really actually objectionable you know to to in

02:11the pro-life community. So you know meanwhile on the other side Republican

02:14candidates want to be able to run in the mainstream and attract the majority of

02:18voters and really portray these issues as being peripheral. So you know

02:23Republicans are caught a little bit on this issue and and one of the big

02:27questions certainly is going to be whether who succeeds in either making

02:32this peripheral issue which is the Republican goal or making this a

02:35centerpiece issue that voters actually you know make decisions on which is

02:40Democrats goal. So we've got really like this push and pull that is that makes

02:46Republicans not want to have this be a sort of centerpiece issue and want voters

02:52to sort of you know put it to the side and vote on other issues whether it's

02:56immigration whether it's the economy anything but this because it's divisive

03:00for them.

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