Washington, D.C. — U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff is working to protect access to contraception for Georgia women after the overturning of Roe v. Wade.
This week, Sen. Ossoff is working to pass the Right to Contraception Act, a bill establishing a right to access the pill, IUDs, and other contraception. When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, it put at risk longstanding protections for contraception and IVF for women in Georgia.
Since the overturning of Roe v. Wade, many states, including Georgia, have severely restricted women’s access to reproductive health care. Georgia enacted one of the most restrictive abortion bans in the country, banning women from abortion after six weeks, before many even know they are pregnant.
The Right to Contraception Act would prevent governors from enforcing laws limiting access to birth control.
The bill is expected to be voted on tomorrow in the Senate.
“I will fight back against any effort by extremists to ban birth control for Georgia women. I urge my colleagues to join in this defense of basic reproductive health care for Georgia women,” Sen. Ossoff said.
Sen. Ossoff continues working to protect Georgians’ access to reproductive health care.
In March, during a U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Sen. Ossoff spoke up for Georgia families who fear efforts to ban IVF after the overturning of Roe v. Wade and the Alabama Supreme Court’s subsequent extreme ruling banning IVF in Alabama.
In February, Sen. Ossoff and Senate colleagues launched a push to pass the Access to Family Building Act, legislation he co-sponsored to establish a legal right to IVF in response to the overturning of Roe v. Wade and the Alabama Supreme Court’s subsequent extreme ruling. The bill was later blocked in the Senate.
Last year, Sen. Ossoff also co-sponsored the Women’s Health Protection Act of 2023, which would protect access to reproductive health care and prohibit State laws that impose burdensome and medically unnecessary restrictions on access to abortion services.
Last year in a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Sen. Ossoff spoke with Dr. Nisha Verma, an OB/GYN in Atlanta, about the maternal health care workforce shortage Georgia faces and how Georgia’s 6-week abortion ban risks making this crisis worse.
Click here to read the Right to Contraception Act.
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