The new rules under the Affordable Care Act would include emergency contraception, a newly approved nonprescription birth control pill, spermicides and condoms.

Democrats: for safe sex

Republicans: for creating a world where nobody dares do it

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    I feel like Biden should just say fuck it, and try to pass as much as he can like there’s no tommorrow. Because for him, there pretty much isn’t.

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      The problem is that the things he can do without congressional support can be easily overturned by the next President — and the Republicans have a majority in the House of Representatives.

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        Better to try and give a possible future Democratic majority an easy shoe-in precedent for writing the law, or give a future Republican majority extra busywork and lawsuits and court time to do, than to never do anything at all.

    • Agreed, except remember this - he’s not really a lame duck, he’s on the same team as Harris so what he does now can splash on her.

      So, still yes, except use caution if there’s a risk it might hurt Harris’s campaign.