::THE SLICE REPORT WITH MONA AUSTIN

  Today, to mark the 59th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in  Griswold v. Connecticut —which  found that the constitutional right to privacy protects access to contraception—Jennifer Klein, Assistant to the President and Director of the White House Gender Policy Council, and Erica Songer, Deputy Assistant to the President and Counsel to the Vice President, convened women’s community leaders, health care advocates, and reproductive rights advocates to highlight the Biden-Harris Administration’s  strong record  of strengthening access to affordable, high-quality contraception, an essential part of reproductive health care. They were joined by Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, Department of Health and Human Services Assistant Secretary for Health Admiral Rachel Levine, and Principal Deputy Director of the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights Jenny Ma. Contraception has c...