GOP NY congressman accuses Dem of refusing to let him cosponsor contraception bill for political reasons

A New York House Republican is accusing a Democrat workfellow of refusing to fto him cosponsor a pro-contraception measure which is present leaving him unfastened to onslaught ads by his election opponent. 

Rep. Marc Molinaro, R-N.Y., took to X connected Monday to stock emails from his unit written to Rep. Kathy Manning, D-N.C., where they asked for him successful June to beryllium added arsenic a co-sponsor to the Right to Contraception Act, a measure she introduced which would found protections for an individual's close to entree commencement power and support wellness attraction providers' quality to supply contraception.

Molinaro, a Freshman House member, says that his Democratic opponent successful the hotly contested New York 19th District race, Josh Riley, is blasting him for not being a co-sponsor, contempt his requests to co-sponsor the bill.

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Rep. Marc Molinaro, R-N.Y., speaks during a quality league with members of the House Republican Conference successful the Cannon Building connected Wednesday, March 6, 2024. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

"I was the archetypal Republican to enactment the Right to Contraception Act. Shame connected @KathyManningNC who DENIED my MANY requests to cosponsor conscionable truthful @JoshRileyUE could rotation much lies successful his hopeless run built connected lies. #ANewLow," Molinaro wrote. Molinaro’s unit emailed Manning connected June 5 and connected June 13 asking for him to beryllium added arsenic a cosponsor, per the screenshots. 

Manning fired backmost and asked Molinaro if helium would sign a discharge petition launched in June which would try to unit a ballot connected her bill. The petition would unit a ballot connected the measure if 218 House members motion on.

"Hey Marc, does this mean you’ll motion the petition to bring my Right to Contraception Act up for a vote? Or bash you not privation the measure to marque it to the House Floor?" Manning wrote. 

The discharge petition was launched June 4, 1 time earlier the archetypal email from Molinaro's unit to Manning's, per Axios. At the time, Molinaro expressed openness to signing the petition but has not since signed on, according to the publication. 

"How disgusting and short-sighted. LAWS are made by welcoming Republican AND Democrat support," Molinaro changeable back.

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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., speaks during a quality league connected the Right to Contraception Act extracurricular the U.S. Capitol connected June 5, successful Washington, D.C. (Kent Nishimura/Getty Images)

Molinaro's bureau directed Fox News Digital to his posts connected X erstwhile seeking further comment. Manning's bureau did not instantly respond to a petition for comment.

In June, the Senate voted 51-39 against moving the legislation forward. The measure needed to garner 60 votes successful bid to determination guardant successful the precocious chamber. The bill’s connection says it "sets retired statutory protections for an individual's close to entree and a wellness attraction provider's close to supply contraception and related information." 

Molinaro said Monday helium supports a woman’s close to an termination and opposes a nationalist prohibition on abortion.

"My presumption is this," Molinaro said successful a gathering with the Cortland Standard editorial board, the work reports.  

"I judge the determination to person an termination should beryllium the woman’s and her physician’s."

North Carolina Rep. Kathy Manning speaks during a rally of Jewish voters for Vice President Kamala Harris astatine the Sheet Metal Workers Local 80 successful Southfield, Michigan, connected Sunday, Oct. 20, 2024 (Dominic Gwinn / Middle East Images / Middle East Images via AFP)

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Riley has accused Molinaro of voting "13 times to restrict entree to abortion."

"The 13 votes are a lie, conscionable a lie. They were procedural votes," Molinaro told the Cortland Standard. "I led the bipartisan committee to money the enlargement of entree to women’s healthcare," helium said.

Molinaro told the outlet that fractional the votes were bills wherever the connection was inserted into bills connected a antithetic topic. The different half, helium said, is to support the existing modular of access, which is that national wealth does not money abortions.

Meanwhile, Molinaro became 1 of the archetypal GOP members of Congress to enactment the Access to Family Building Act. Democrats introduced the authorities defending successful vitro fertilization treatment and holding frozen embryos to the aforesaid ineligible modular arsenic children nether authorities law.