Dana Bash: ‘Encouraging News’ for Dems in Arizona, Florida —New Poll Shows Majority Support for Abortion, Contraception

BASH: “Some encouraging news for Democrats in Arizona and Florida. A new poll shows big majorities in both states support abortion rights measures that will be on the ballot in November. Now, this week, here in Washington, Democrats tried to lean into that topic with a push to enshrine contraception rights nationwide. Here with me now to talk about that and more is Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer. Thank you so much for being here. You just heard Governor Noem, your colleague from South Dakota, talk about contraception. She says Republicans are not trying to take away access to birth control, Democrats are making this political. What’s your response?”
Whitmer: “I think that we all know the truth here. There’s no question that, with the three appointments that Donald Trump put onto our United States Supreme Court, three people who lied to Congress, betrayed their oath of office, and put forward the Dobbs decision, we know that there are women in many states who cannot access fundamental health care, cannot make their own decisions about whether and when to bear a child. We know that Mifepristone is under attack, that IVF, surrogacy, and now contraception is as well. And when the U.S. Senate puts forth policy to ensure that they have an opportunity to enshrine access to contraception, and Republicans vote against it and kill that bill, it is very much at risk here in this moment. And I think that what we’re seeing out of the Republicans, saying that they want to protect this, is disingenuous at best, and an outright lie at worst.”