众议院周四通过了避孕权法案，确保任何需要避孕的人都能获得避孕措施，如节育——这一举措是在保守派最高法院法官克拉伦斯·托马斯表示高等法院应该重新审视基于宪法中隐私权的关键判例不到一个月之后做出的。
最终投票结果是228票对195票。
该措施在联邦一级对避孕药具的获取进行了法律规定，允许人们获得和使用节育措施，同时也保障了卫生保健提供者供应此类产品的能力。
受法律保护的避孕药具包括口服和急救药物、宫内避孕器和避孕套。
此外，该法案授权司法部长、医疗保健提供者和其他个人对违反该法案规定的任何州提起民事诉讼。
众议院议长南希·佩洛西于2022年7月21日在华盛顿特区的美国国会大厦举行每周新闻发布会
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众议院议长南希·佩洛西(Nancy Pelosi)称，法院推翻罗伊诉韦德案(Roe v. Wade)确保堕胎权利的裁决是“对女性的一记耳光”，并补充说，“国会中的民主党女性表示，我们不会回头，我们希望共和党同事今天能加入这项立法。”
但195名共和党人投票反对该法案，远远多于本周早些时候投票支持将同性和跨种族婚姻的权利纳入法律的人数。
只有八名共和党人投了赞成票:众议员切尼，菲茨帕特里克，冈萨雷斯，卡特科，金辛格，梅斯，萨拉扎和厄普顿。
众议院民主党人在过去几天里一直在提交法案，以回应最高法院推翻罗伊诉韦德案的决定，以及托马斯法官关于法院应重新考虑其他重要判例的评论
众议院上周通过了两项关于堕胎权的法案。
目前还不清楚这些法案是否以及何时会被采纳在参议院。
就在投票前，多数党领袖斯泰尼·霍耶在众议院发言时说...我的三个女儿对这项法案的通过感到惊讶。我很惊讶会有这样一个前提，不知何故，宪法没有保证我的三个女儿有权做出这些决定，而不是我们所有人。”
“这是关于自由的。这是关于个人的正直。这次投票将向美国人民表明议员们在这个问题上的立场，即这个国家的人们按照他们认为自己想做的方式实行计划生育是否应该继续合法。
House votes to guarantee contraception access in federal law
The House on Thursday passed The Right to Contraception Act that ensures access to contraception, such as birth control, to anyone who needs it -- a move coming less than a month after conservative Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas said the high court should revisit key precedents based on privacy rights found in the Constitution.
The final vote was 228-195.
The measure codifies access to contraceptives on the federal level, allowing people to obtain and use birth control while also safeguarding a health care provider's ability to supply such products.
Contraceptives protected under the legislation include oral and emergency medications, intrauterine devices and condoms.
Additionally, the bill authorizes the attorney general, health care providers and other individuals to take civil action against any states that violate the provisions of the bill.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called the court overturning its Roe v. Wade decision ensuring abortion rights a "slap in the face to women," adding, "Democratic women in Congress are saying we're not turning back, and we hope that we will be joined by Republican colleagues in this legislation today."
But 195 Republicans voted against the bill, many more than voted in support of codifying rights to same-sex and interracial marriage earlier this week.
Only eight Republicans voted in favor: Reps. Cheney, Fitzpatrick, Gonzalez, Katko, Kinzinger, Mace, Salazar, and Upton.
House Democrats have spent the last several days putting bills on the floor in response to the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade and Justice Thomas' comments that the court should reconsider other key precedents
The House last week passed two bills related to abortion access.
It is unclear if and when any of these bills will be taken upin the Senate.
Speaking on the House floor just ahead of the vote, Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said, "... my three daughters are amazed that this legislation is on the floor. Amazed that there would be a premise that somehow the Constitution did not guarantee to my three daughters the right to make these decisions and not all of us."
"This is about freedom. This is about individual integrity. And this vote will show the American people where members stand on this question of whether it should continue to be legal for people in this country to pursue family planning as they perceive they want to do," he said.
