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.

  • @assassin_aragorn
    11•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.

    • @UnderpantsWeevil
      0•9 months ago

      You need 50 Dem senators willing to overturn the filibuster

      Which they have had on repeated occasions.

        • @UnderpantsWeevil
          0•9 months ago

          1993, 2007, 2021…

          Hell, Bill Frist offered to blow up the Filibuster with the Nuclear Option back in 2003. A minority of Dems could have simply let him, rather than caving on Judicial nominees.

          • @assassin_aragorn
            0•9 months ago

            There were not 50 willing to kill the filibuster in 2021. Manchin and Sinema were against it.

            • @UnderpantsWeevil
              0•9 months ago

              There was never a vote for or against removing the Filibuster. The rules decision was one more sloppy rush job by a mismanaged Senate.

              • @assassin_aragorn
                1•9 months ago

                You’re presupposing then that if there was a vote, they’d have gotten rid of it

                • @UnderpantsWeevil
                  0•9 months ago

                  I’m not presupposing anything. I’m observing the failure of the Senate leadership to hold open the vote.

                  • @assassin_aragorn
                    1•9 months ago

                    Your argument then is that the Senate could have held a vote to overturn the filibuster, but not that it would necessarily pass. And that would be true for every year and every day, the Senate could have voted on that during every presidential administration.