GOP 'radicals' are 'coming for contraception next': Morning Joe

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough warned that Donald Trump and his "radical right-wing" allies were planning to take away another right from women.

The "Morning Joe" host said U.S. Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas has made clear that overturning Roe v. Wade was just the beginning of a rollback of women's rights, and he said that right-wing activists are infiltrating courts with the intent of taking away the right to contraception.

"They're not going to end by taking away one right of women that has been constitutionally protected for 50 years," Scarborough said. "It goes from that to 10-year-old rape victims to IVF and, you watch, they're saying it, they're telling you, Thomas, Justice Thomas said it, they're coming for contraception next. They'll lie, but that's what their activists want to do. These radical, radical right-wing activists have infiltrated the Alabama Supreme Court. They will infiltrate another court, and you watch, Griswold v. Connecticut, and the right for women to have contraception, that's coming down the road if this continues, if Donald Trump supporters have their way."

Reproductive rights – whether it's abortion, birth control or in vitro fertilization – are broadly popular, with at least 70 percent or 80 percent of Americans supporting each of those rights, and former Republican National Committee chair Michael Steele said that taking away access to any of those health care measures would be political poison.

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"They don't even understand fundamentally the downstream impacts and effects of Dobbs," Steele said. "State legislatures, courts, judges are acting with impunity against women. That's what this boils down to. They now have control of the issue. You know, the proverbial we caught the dog, right? The car has been caught by the dog, and now the dog don't know what the hell to do with the car. The reality of it is, the driver and the passengers in the car are, like, what the hell you doing, right? They don't recognize, they don't recognize exactly what this issue means to so many Americans out there, so you're going to see more scrambling."

"They want to get off of this so fast it'd make your head swim," Steele added. "This issue is, like Dobbs, like Dobbs, it is equally poisonous to their political ambitions because they fundamentally don't understand the impact it is having on women and families."

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