{"id":2071,"date":"2022-07-27T11:45:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-27T15:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/wyden-merkley-colleagues-introduce-bill-to-codify-the-right-to-contraception-22\/"},"modified":"2023-07-24T11:04:57","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T15:04:57","slug":"wyden-merkley-colleagues-introduce-bill-to-codify-the-right-to-contraception-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/wyden-merkley-colleagues-introduce-bill-to-codify-the-right-to-contraception-22\/","title":{"rendered":"Wyden, Merkley y colegas presentan proyecto de ley para codificar el derecho a la anticoncepci\u00f3n"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><i>Washington DC<\/i>&nbsp;<\/b>\u2013<br \/>\nU.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley with colleagues have introduced<i>&nbsp;<\/i>legislaci\u00f3n<br \/>\nthat would codify the right to contraception, which the Supreme Court first<br \/>\nrecognized more than half a century ago in its decision in&nbsp;<i>Griswold contra Connecticut<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>The introduction follows Justice Clarence Thomas\u2019 concurring<br \/>\nopinion last month in&nbsp;<i>Dobbs v. Jackson Women\u2019s Health<br \/>\nOrganization&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<\/i>overturning&nbsp;<i>Hueva<\/i>&nbsp;<i>v. Wade<\/i>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;in<br \/>\nwhich he urged the Court to reconsider its 1965&nbsp;<i>Griswold&nbsp;<\/i>decisi\u00f3n.<br \/>\nSeveral states have already restricted access to contraception by cutting off<br \/>\npublic funding for&nbsp;it,&nbsp;defining abortion broadly enough<br \/>\nto&nbsp;include&nbsp;contraception, and allowing health care providers to<br \/>\nrefuse to provide services related to contraception based on their own personal<br \/>\nbeliefs.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cJustice Thomas made<br \/>\nhis views and the views of the extremist Republican party painfully clear:<br \/>\nel&nbsp;<i style=\"\">Dobbs <\/i>decision is not just about overturning the right to a<br \/>\nsafe and legal abortion. Conservatives will not rest until they have complete<br \/>\ncontrol over women\u2019s bodies, including access to birth control. It\u2019s enough to<br \/>\nleave you wondering, what century is this?\u201d&nbsp;Wyden said.&nbsp;\u201cFor many Americans, birth control is a part<br \/>\nof a basic health regimen.&nbsp;<i style=\"\">La Ley del Derecho a la Anticoncepci\u00f3n&nbsp;<\/i>will<br \/>\nensure that the government stays out of the exam room and the bedroom because<br \/>\nall Americans should have an equal right to chart the course of their own<br \/>\nlives, including if and when to be pregnant.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIn the year 2022,<br \/>\nit\u2019s outrageous that we\u2019re even debating whether Americans should have access<br \/>\nto contraception\u2014but that\u2019s where this extremist MAGA Supreme Court has left<br \/>\nus,\u201d&nbsp;Merkley said. \u201cAccess<br \/>\nto contraception and other family planning and reproductive health care<br \/>\nresources are vital in ensuring all Americans are able to control their own<br \/>\nlives and health care decisions. Let\u2019s keep the government out of our bedrooms<br \/>\nand ensure that the right to contraception remains ironclad in America.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>El&nbsp;<i>Ley del Derecho a la Anticoncepci\u00f3n<\/i>&nbsp;would uphold<br \/>\naccess to contraception by:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Creating a statutory right for individuals to obtain<br \/>\ncontraceptives and to engage in contraception;<\/li>\n<li>Establishing a corresponding right for health care providers<br \/>\nto provide contraceptives, contraception, and information related to<br \/>\ncontraception;<\/li>\n<li>Allowing the Department of Justice, as well as providers and<br \/>\nindividuals harmed by restrictions on contraception access made unlawful under<br \/>\nthe legislation, to go to court to enforce these rights; and<\/li>\n<li>Protecting a range of contraceptive methods, devices, and<br \/>\nmedications used to prevent pregnancy, including but not limited to oral<br \/>\ncontraceptives, long-acting reversible contraceptives, emergency<br \/>\ncontraceptives, internal and external condoms, injectables, vaginal barrier<br \/>\nmethods, transdermal patches, vaginal rings, fertility-awareness based methods,<br \/>\nand sterilization procedures.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Una copia de la legislaci\u00f3n es&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.markey.senate.gov\/download\/right-to-contraception-act-bill-text\">AQU\u00cd<\/a>.<b>&nbsp;<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Senators Edward J. Markey, D-Mass., Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii,<br \/>\nand Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill. introduced the&nbsp;legislation. Along with Wyden<br \/>\nand Merkley, the bill&nbsp;is co-sponsored by&nbsp;Senators Tammy Baldwin,<br \/>\nD-Wis., Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., Cory Booker, D-N.J., Sherrod Brown,<br \/>\nD-Ohio, Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., Tom Carper, D-Del., Dianne Feinstein,<br \/>\nD-Calif., Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., John<br \/>\nHickenlooper, D-Colo., Tim Kaine, D-Va., Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., Ben Ray Luj\u00e1n,<br \/>\nD-N.M., Bob Menendez, D-N.J., Chris Murphy, D-Conn., Alex Padilla,<br \/>\nD-Calif,&nbsp;Jack Reed, D-R.I., Jacky Rosen, D-Nev., Bernie Sanders, I-Vt.,<br \/>\nJeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., Tina Smith, D-Minn., Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., Chris<br \/>\nVan Hollen, D-Md.,&nbsp;Mark Warner, D-Va.,&nbsp;Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and<br \/>\nSheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>El&nbsp;<i>Ley del Derecho a la Anticoncepci\u00f3n<\/i>&nbsp;is endorsed<br \/>\nby Planned Parenthood Federation of America, NARAL Pro-Choice America, National<br \/>\nWomen\u2019s Law Center, National Organization for Women, Power to Decide, National<br \/>\nFamily Planning and Reproductive Health Association, Reproductive Health Access<br \/>\nProject, Catholics for Choice, Association of Maternal &amp; Child Health<br \/>\nPrograms, Upstream USA, National Center for Lesbian Rights,&nbsp;National<br \/>\nPartnership for Women &amp; Families, Jewish Women International, Positive<br \/>\nWomen\u2019s Network-USA, and the National Council of Jewish Women.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, D.C.&nbsp;\u2013 U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley with colleagues have introduced&nbsp;legislation that would codify the right to contraception, which the Supreme Court first recognized more than half a century ago in its decision in&nbsp;Griswold v. 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