PolitiFact - Three things about the abortion debate that many people get wrong

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In the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn the federal right to abortion, things are more than a little confused. But amid all the confusion, some things are simply not true. Here are three myths going around about the abortion debate:

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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There seems to be an ignorance Politifact is spreading as well as other Democrats. You people seem to think the Dobbs decision was that SCOTUS couldn't regulate abortion but for some reason, Congress can. NO. The FEDERAL GOVERNMENT has no say on abortion. Only states.

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