The Proposed “Contraceptive” Bill

 Reason Magazine has a nice article detailing some of the provisions of the “Right to Contraception Act”.

Here is a link to the text of actual bill. It have passed the House, and been sent to the Senate. The Left is in a frenzied hurry to pass this BEFORE the next election. The rapidity with which they moved it through can be seen as a measure of their fears for the likely party composition of the next Congress.

The bill is HR 8373 - it’s stated purpose is:

To protect a person’s ability to access contraceptives and to engage in contraception, and to protect a health care provider’s ability to provide contraceptives, contraception, and information related to contraception.

Well, all righty, then. Surely no sensible person could POSSIBLY object to legislation with such a high-minded purpose, could they?

Let’s start with the definitions.

CONTRACEPTION.—The term ‘‘contraception’’ means an action taken to prevent pregnancy including the use of contraceptives or fertility-awareness based methods, and sterilization procedures.

Ooooh, that wording is loose enough to drive a truck through. In the parlance of the Left, a contraceptive can include:

• Condoms (both male and female)
• Foam, gels, and other OTC methods to reduce the likelihood of pregnancy
• Pills, implants, IUDs, injectables that are LARCS (long acting reversible contraceptives)
• Plan B - already widely available OTC in many states.
• Sterilization
• And, in the gray area for most of us, meds used to stop a pregnancy-in-progress. That is, medical abortion, which can be handled by a virtual visit, cross state lines, and even cross national borders.

That last option is the plan for theLeft. They will be transitioning from in-person to virtual, shipping the meds in a plain wrapper (or, more likely, one that is misleadingly labeled), and delivering a hands-off abortion. They mean to keep their providers from being dragged into court in states that don’t want that business within their borders.

The next step will be for the Left to make the meds available OTC in the aborting states. Drug runners will have a handy-dandy new product, one that will not expose them to federal prison, and that is small, easily concealable, and doesn’t give off identifying odors for the drug dogs.

Here is another provision of the bill that leaves latitude to enable OTC abortion WITHOUT the expense of a physician.

The term “health care provider’’ means, with respect to a State, any entity or individual (including any physician, certified nurse-midwife, nurse, nurse practitioner, physician assistant, and pharmacist) that is licensed or otherwise authorized by the State to provide health care services.

There ya’ go folks. Physician’s assistants, nurses. Boy, the payroll of abortion clinics will drop dramatically. Thereby upping their profits.

Those guys don’t miss a trick.

The bill goes on to cite Roe v Wade and all the other decisions that back up their contention that abortion is a “fundamental right”. 

Woo-hoo! They are putting the FUN in fundamental!

Amazingly, they don’t seem to mention the Dobbs decision in that bill. They do manage to bring in the UN Population Fund AND WHO to bolster their case that this is an accepted right of every sensible person.

Not only do they assure you that contraceptives are safe, but they also:

many contraceptives are highly effective in preventing and treating a wide array of often severe medical conditions and decrease the risk of certain cancers.

Would those be the various cancers caused by STDs? Which use of condoms, every time, can reduce, if not eliminate? And would those severe medical conditions be AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases? All of which has NOTHING to do with family planning.

The last part I will comment on today is this:

In interpreting the provisions of this Act, a court shall liberally construe such provisions to effectuate the purposes of the Act.

in other words, no matter what the law actually states, some judge with an agenda (Whoops, I just described a majority of the judicial Left) can throw the law out, and rule according to his whims (or, marching orders from the Left).