I am proud to stand with 9 in 10 Americans and support the bipartisan Right to Contraception Act. This bill would enshrine the right to contraception into federal law and protect all people who use it from attempts to restrict access to birth control.
Protect the right to contraception.
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Smith says Washingtonians deserve reproductive freedom and says he is proud to support the bipartisan Right to Contraception Act and related family-planning bills.
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Using the federal office context, this promise is not delivered. Smith publicly supported and cosponsored the Right to Contraception Act and related family-planning measures, which is meaningful candidate effort, but the key federal outcome he was promising did not occur: no federal law protecting a nationwide right to contraception was enacted. The main 118th Congress contraception-rights bill remained at the introduced/referred stage rather than becoming law. Because he made a serious legislative attempt but did not achieve the promised federal protection, the best judgment is never with an effort badge.