WASHINGTON DC – Today, U.S. Senator Jacky Rosen (D-NV) joined Senate colleagues in introducing the Access to Birth Control Act. This legislation would guarantee women timely access to birth control at pharmacies nationwide—including by requiring pharmacies to provide patients with their preferred form of birth control medication.
“When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, it opened the floodgates to extreme attacks on reproductive freedoms across our nation. Anti-choice extremists have now made it clear that they will target women’s access to birth control and the ability to make their own family planning decisions,” said Senator Rosen. “Women, not anti-choice politicians, should decide what happens with their own bodies. I’m proud to have helped introduce this bill to protect women’s right to access birth control, and I’ll continue standing up to protect women’s ability to make decisions over their own bodies.”
Senator Rosen continues fighting back against efforts to restrict women’s reproductive freedoms. She helped introduce the Right to Contraception Act, which was blocked by anti-choice Republicans last Congress. She also helped introduce the Let Doctors Provide Reproductive Health Care Act to protect doctors and other health care professionals from being prosecuted for providing reproductive care to their patients, as well as the Women’s Health Protection Act to protect reproductive freedoms in federal law.
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