WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senator Jacky Rosen (D-NV) joined her Senate colleagues to help introduce the Right to Contraception Act. This bill would reaffirm the explicit legal right to obtain and use contraceptives, and ensure health care providers have a right to give contraceptives and share information about it.
“As anti-choice extremists continue trying to restrict women’s ability to access reproductive care, it’s clear that we must protect the right to contraception in federal law,” said Senator Rosen. “This legislation would help protect a woman’s fundamental right to make decisions about her own body and keep extreme politicians out of her doctor’s offices. I’ll continue working to protect our reproductive rights.”
Senator Rosen has been working to restore reproductive freedoms and oppose anti-choice efforts to restrict access to care. She has previously voted to protect women’s constitutional right to access birth control. Last year, she also voted to support the passage of the Reproductive Freedom for Women Act, which was blocked by Senate Republicans. Senator Rosen joined legislation to safeguard IVF treatments in federal law and helped introduce the Let Doctors Provide Reproductive Health Care Act to protect health care professionals from being prosecuted for providing reproductive care to their patients.
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