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.

  • @UnderpantsWeevil
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    010 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
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      110 months ago

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

      • @UnderpantsWeevil
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        010 months ago

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

        • @assassin_aragorn
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          110 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.

          • @UnderpantsWeevil
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            010 months ago

            Your argument then is that the Senate could have held a vote to overturn the filibuster

            Right. They failed to hold a vote, which is the first necessary step to winning a vote.