“The Democrats are using their power to push an alarmist and false narrative that there is a problem accessing contraception,” said Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy, the top Republican on the Senate Health, Labor, Education and Pensions Committee.
If he really meant this, there’d be no problem passing a bill to protect contraception access. If there’s already no problem getting it, and you’re not intending to prevent people from getting it, a bill protecting access is at worst window dressing and harms no one.
I can only conclude they are intending to find further ways to prevent people from getting contraception, and don’t want this bill to get in their way.
I’ve heard figures as high as 390 million. I’m pretty sure there are more guns than people in the US.