Now, Glenn has chided us for not codifying Roe v. Wade into law, when we had lots of chances. Well, no, we never did, because the GOP would always filibuster such a bill.The House is poised to vote this week on legislation that would enshrine marriage equality and access to contraception into federal law, as Democrats try to preemptively protect other rights that could be at risk after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, which for nearly 50 years had guaranteed the right to an abortion in the United States.
The House is scheduled to vote Tuesday on the Respect for Marriage Act, which would require that someone be considered married in any state as long as the marriage was valid in the state where it was performed. The bill would also repeal the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act, which defined marriage as the union of one man and one woman and allowed states to not recognize same-sex marriages performed in other states. That law has remained on the books despite being declared unconstitutional by the Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.
On Wednesday, the House is scheduled to vote on the Right to Contraception Act, which would “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.”
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The two bills — and Democrats’ urgency in moving them — are the direct result of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade last month. In his concurrence with that decision, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas wrote that the high court should also examine previous rulings that legalized the right for married couples to buy and use contraception without government restriction (Griswold v. Connecticut), same-sex relationships (Lawrence v. Texas) and marriage equality (Obergefell v. Hodges).
“In future cases, we should reconsider all of this Court’s substantive due process precedents, including Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell,” Thomas wrote. “Because any substantive due process decision is ‘demonstrably erroneous’ … we have a duty to ‘correct the error’ established in those precedents.”
“After overruling these demonstrably erroneous decisions, the question would remain whether other constitutional provisions guarantee the myriad rights that our substantive due process cases have generated,” he added.
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Rep. Kathy E. Manning (D-N.C.), who introduced the contraception bill last week, called Thomas’s concurring opinion “alarming” and “a rallying call to escalate attacks on access to contraceptives.”
“I will not stand idly by and watch extreme politicians obstruct women’s private health care choices and diminish reproductive freedom,” Manning said then.
But he also says that oh, no, the GOP has NO intentions of overturning other decisions, such as gay marriage or access to contraception, even though Clarence Thomas's concurrence says EXACTLY THAT!
So, now they get their chance. Yesterday, the Respect for Marriage Act passed the House, 267-157. Zero Dems voted against the bill, and 47 Republicans voted for it. Of course, Glenn's Congressman, Ralph Norman, whom Glenn raves about, voted NO.
So over 3/4 of Republicans refused the rights of gays to marry. If it's up to the GOP, there won't be any gay marriage.
Now it goes to the Senate. Can they find 10 GOP votes so it can get a vote? They sure as hell need to bring it up for a vote so every Republican can lay out where they really stand.
And next, supposedly today, is a bill detailing the right to contraception. What do you want to bet there's a bunch of GOP Congress critters that vote NO?
We need to know before November where these bastards really stand. They can, like Glenn, assert all day long they're in favor of both, but I'd say when it comes time to vote, they'll go the other direction.
they actually still have this slippery-slope trash up on their trashy website, which tells us their present goals to overturn Obergefell and more. No, I’m not sending any hits to it. 
