Hillary Clinton is warning about the legality of birth control in the wake of a decision by the Alabama Supreme Court that found frozen embryos created through fertility treatments are children und…

Hillary Clinton is warning about the legality of birth control in the wake of a decision by the Alabama Supreme Court that found frozen embryos created through fertility treatments are children under state law.

“They came for abortion first. Now it’s [in vitro fertilization], and next it’ll be birth control,” the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee and secretary of State said in a post on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.

“The extreme right won’t stop trying to exert government control over our most sacred personal decisions until we codify reproductive freedom as a human right,” Clinton added.

  • SkyezOpen@lemmy.world
    173·
    9 months ago

    They treat it the same as Republicans did, a talking point to rally around. That is, until the Republicans actually did something and stacked the Supreme Court. They could have codified roe when Obama was president, but I don’t think they even tried or considered the possibility that roe would be overturned.

    Now that roe has been killed, women have shifted significantly blue. Why the hell would they actually fix the issue when they can campaign on it for the next decade at least?

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
      65·
      9 months ago

      They could have codified roe when Obama was president

      Or when Clinton was President in '92 or when Biden was President in '21. Multiple opportunities, but they all meant staking a position as a party and not being 300 little local independent influencers, trying to soak up as much campaign cash as they can before the next wave year tosses them out.

      • assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world
        9·
        9 months ago

        You need 50 Dem senators willing to overturn the filibuster or 60 in favor of abortion. Unfortunately, we’ve never had those numbers.

        It’s much more of a problem that we can’t find even 10 Republican senators who are willing to enshrine abortion in some fashion.