Groups opposed to abortion rights have generally avoided taking positions explicitly opposing contraception, although some support legislation that reproductive rights advocates warn could threaten access to some birth control methods. Last year, just weeks after the Dobbs decision, a group of Iowa Republicans including Senators Joni Ernst and Chuck Grassley and Congresswomen Mariannette Miller-Meeks and Ashley Hinson proposed legislation designed to expedite efforts to make certain contraceptives available over the counter to patients 18 and older. But some Congressional Republicans have a history of supporting legislation meant to ease access to contraceptives. So far, she has no Republican co-sponsors.
"I say to them, this is your opportunity to show people that you are living the words that you're speaking and co-sign the legislation," Murray says. Leaders of the Congressional Pro-Life Caucus, among others, have made such claims. Murray notes that some Republicans who oppose abortion rights have said they do not intend to limit access to birth control. In the wake of the Dobbs decision, Murray says she hopes Republicans will join her - which would be essential in a closely-divided Congress for her legislation to advance.
but it will only be available for some women if it is not covered by insurance." "This is a great step if FDA approves this and women can go to the drugstore and purchase it without having to have a doctor's appointment. "Now that we are seeing that it may become available over the counter, we want to make sure that insurers still pay for it because it is costly," Murray says. Murray's bill would build on a requirement in the Affordable Care Act that most health insurance companies provide contraceptive coverage without a co-pay. More than 100 countries already allow oral contraceptives to be dispensed this way. Murray re-introduced legislation on Thursday that would require insurance companies to cover over-the-counter birth control pills as soon as they become available without a prescription, as recently recommended unanimously by a Food and Drug Administration panel. "But at the same time, we need to make sure that over-the-counter birth control is available." Jackson Women's Health Organization ruling that overturned decades of abortion-rights precedent. "I disagree wholeheartedly with the Supreme Court decision," she said, referring to last summer's Dobbs v. "Women in many states today, because of the decision by the Supreme Court, are really worried about their access to be able to have birth control pills as a way of making sure they don't become pregnant, because in their states, they won't have access to abortion care," Murray, a Democrat, said in an interview with NPR. Patty Murray of Washington thinks this should be it. If there was ever a time for Republicans to back efforts to expand birth control access, U.S.
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