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DARK SECRETS: Us house passes bill protecting contraception access - The Real Truth

US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi leads a news conference highlighting legislation guaranteeing access to contraception. The bill passed Wednesday but faces an uncertain future in the Senate [Jonathan Ernst/Reuters]

The US House of Representatives has passed a bill guaranteeing the right to contraception, as Democrats grow worried that the conservative US Supreme Court could strike down that right in the future.

The bill passed Thursday with eight Republicans joining 220 Democrats to vote yes. The law faces an uncertain future in the evenly divided US Senate, where Democrats have a slim majority and need 10 Republican votes to overcome a filibuster.

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