Nancy Mace dons signal on jacket supporting entry to contraception

Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) donned n signal on her again on the Capitol on Thursday, casting shade on GOP colleagues for his or her opposition to a contraception invoice.

The congresswoman, who was one among eight Home Republicans to again the contraception invoice, additionally referred to as consideration to a proposal in her dwelling state of South Carolina that might improve restrictions on abortion with out exceptions for rape or incest. "My state is banning exceptions. Shield contraception," the signal taped on her blue blazer demanded.

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"My state is banning virtually all exceptions for ladies together with who’ve been raped & victims of incest. At the moment I voted to guard entry to contraceptives — to guard each girl in South Carolina. You'll be able to’t ban abortion after which not shield ladies’s entry to contraceptives," Mace tweeted.

Mace beforehand advocated rape and incest exemptions concerning abortion restrictions throughout her time as a South Carolina state consultant. Throughout a contentious battle within the Palmetto State on abortion, Mace recalled how she had been raped on the age of 16. In the end, she prevailed in safeguarding these exemptions on the time. However now, a lot to her chagrin, the state Home is eyeing an abortion restriction invoice devoid of these exemptions.

On Thursday, the Home handed the Proper to Contraception Act with all Democrats and eight Republicans, together with Mace, voting in favor of it. The invoice ensures a proper to Meals and Drug Administration-approved contraceptive drugs. It got here in response to the current Supreme Courtroom overturn of precedents set in Roe v. Wade.

In his concurring opinion for that call, Justice Clarence Thomas argued that the court docket ought to revisit the problem of substantive due course of, which was a part of the rationale behind precedents guaranteeing a constitutional proper to abortion entry, contraception entry, and homosexual marriage. This sparked a public frenzy and whipped up considerations that the excessive court docket may quickly make a ruling cracking down on these different rights.

Justice Samuel Alito, who authored the current Dobbs v. Jackson Girls's Well being Group abortion resolution, declared, “Our resolution considerations the constitutional proper to abortion and no different proper." Nonetheless, Democrats have sought to codify a lot of these rights into legislation simply in case. Earlier this week, the Home handed the Respect for Marriage Act to codify same-sex marriage into legislation. Mace joined 47 Republicans and all Democrats that voted for that invoice.

Mace, who's serving her first time period within the Home, drew Donald Trump's ire for condemning the previous president's actions surrounding the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. Trump backed her main rival in response, however Mace fended off that problem final month and nabbed the get together nod for her district.