Common misperceptions are that only abortion-seekers are affected, that Democrats could have codified protections before, and that Congress can easily get rid of federal laws restricting abortion.
That is its own sub-myth — that the Plan B morning-after pill is the same as the abortion pill mifepristone. Plan B is a high dose of regular birth control that prevents ovulation but does not interrupt an existing pregnancy. Mifepristone ends a pregnancy if used in approximately the first 10 weeks.
obtaining methotrexate, a first-line medication for those ailments that can also be used as an abortion medication. But even though Democrats had bigger majorities in Congress under Democratic Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, large numbers of anti-abortion Democrats in both chambers effectively meant there was not a majority for such legislation, much less the 60-vote supermajority that would have been required in the Senate.
With Democrats in charge of both Congress and the White House, they can just change the existing laws limiting abortion, advocates claim. Indeed, President Joe Biden's budgets in 2021 and 2022, named for its sponsor, the anti-abortion crusading Rep. Henry Hyde , which has barred most federal abortion funding since the late 1970s. But while the
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