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KFF, a nonprofit that studies health care issues, said in May that 14 states have legal or constitutional protections for the right to contraception, with six states and Washington, D.C., enacting ...
House Democrats introduced and passed the Right to Contraception Act in 2022, at a time when Democrat Nancy Pelosi was speaker of the House. But the Senate never held a vote on the bill, stalling ...
It would apply to birth control pills, the plan B pill, condoms and other forms of contraception. The legislation failed to advance in a procedural vote by a tally of 51 to 39.
Certain aspects of the contraception mandate did not start with the ACA. In December 2000, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ruled that companies that provided prescription drugs to their employees but didn't provide birth control were in violation of Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which prevents discrimination on the basis of sex.
Despite strong public support — 8 in 10 voters back the Right to Contraception Act — and bipartisan support in the U.S. Senate, Iowa’s Joni Ernst and Chuck Grassley voted against the bill.
Baird, 405 U.S. 438 (1972), was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court that established the right of unmarried people to possess contraception on the same basis as married couples. The Court struck down a Massachusetts law prohibiting the distribution of contraceptives to unmarried people for the purpose of preventing pregnancy, ruling ...
1920 – In France, a law forbidding all forms of contraception and information about it was enacted. [citation needed] 1920 – In the Soviet Union, Vladimir Lenin legalized abortion on request, the first country to do so. [22] The law was first introduced in the Russian SFSR, and then the rest of the country in 1922. [23]
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