[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Res. 725 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  2d Session
S. RES. 725

   Affirming the legal status of contraception following the Supreme 
 Court's decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, 597 
                            U.S. 215 (2022).


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              June 5, 2024

Mrs. Blackburn (for herself, Mr. Graham, Mr. Daines, Mr. Grassley, Mr. 
Marshall, Mrs. Britt, Mr. Budd, and Mr. Rounds) submitted the following 
    resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                               RESOLUTION


 
   Affirming the legal status of contraception following the Supreme 
 Court's decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, 597 
                            U.S. 215 (2022).

Whereas, in 2022, the United States Supreme Court issued its decision in Dobbs 
        v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, 597 U.S. 215 (2022), overturning 
        the Court's prior decisions in Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973), and 
        Planned Parenthood v. Casey, 505 U.S. 833 (1992);
Whereas, in issuing Dobbs, the Supreme Court invalidated any Federal judicial 
        precedent suggesting that the Constitution of the United States 
        guarantees the right of a woman to abort her unborn child;
Whereas the Supreme Court, ``to ensure that [its] decision [was] not 
        misunderstood or mischaracterized,'' explicitly emphasized that the 
        Dobbs decision ``concern[ed] the constitutional right to abortion and no 
        other right'' and that ``nothing in [its] opinion should be understood 
        to cast doubt on precedents that do not concern abortion'';
Whereas the sole effect of the decision in Dobbs was to return ``the authority 
        to regulate abortion . . . to the people and their elected 
        representatives'';
Whereas some, for political advantage and with the aim of sowing confusion and 
        fear, have suggested that the Court's decision in Dobbs restricts the 
        ability or legal right of women to access contraception in the several 
        States; and
Whereas Congress has the authority, under the 14th Amendment of the Constitution 
        of the United States, ``to enforce, by appropriate legislation,'' the 
        rights belonging to the People of the United States, as guaranteed by 
        the Constitution of the United States: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That the Senate--
            (1) construes the Supreme Court's decision in Dobbs v. 
        Jackson Women's Health Organization, 597 U.S. 215 (2022), as 
        having no effect on the legal right of a woman to access 
        contraception; and
            (2) interprets Dobbs to in no way require the various 
        agencies of the Federal Government to alter rules, regulations, 
        or policies governing access to contraception.
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