Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa US House reps vote along party lines to protect contraceptive rights

The U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation Thursday to protect the right to use contraceptives.

The bill passed 228-195. All Democrats and eight Republicans voted in favor of the bill. No Republicans from Wisconsin, Minnesota or Iowa voted in favor.

It will now head to the Senate, where it seems doomed.

This is the first of a couple bills passed by the House, mostly along party lines, to protect certain rights after the US Supreme Court voted to overturn Roe vs. Wade and send a woman’s right to choose to the states to decide.

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas wrote in that ruling the court should review other precedents — mentioning rulings that affirmed the rights of same-sex marriage in 2015, same-sex intimate relationships in 2003 and married couples’ use of contraceptives in 1965.

Tuesday, the House passed — a little less along party lines — a bill to protect same-sex and interracial marriages. Of the 47 Republicans to vote in favor of that bill, one each came from Wisconsin and Minnesota, as well as two from Iowa.