COLUMBUS, Ohio — The U.S. House of Representatives voted to ensure access to contraception Thursday afternoon, with all but one Republican U.S. representative from Ohio voting against it.

Rep. Anthony Gonzalez, a moderate Republican who sides with the Democrats much more frequently than his Ohio peers, helped push forward the "Access to Birth Control Act."

The bill would create the federal right for people to get and use contraceptives, as well as protecting all different types of birth control methods. This includes, but isn't limited to, oral contraceptives (birth control pills), emergency contraceptives (Plan B) and intrauterine devices (IUDs).

The act would also create the right for health care providers to provide contraception and information on it. The Department of Justice, providers and individuals have the right to take legal action if they feel their rights have been violated.

The House voted 228-195. Each other Ohio representative voted no, except Bob Gibbs, from Lakeville, who was in attendance at the roll call, but did not vote yes or no.

WCPO's sister station WEWS reached out to Gonzalez to do an interview or give a statement, but has not heard back yet.

Thursday's vote comes amid concern other rights may be in jeopardy after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, ending protections for abortion.

In a concurring opinion, Justice Clarence Thomas argued that SCOTUS should also reconsider landmark cases, such as the right to access birth control and the right to marry someone or engage in private sex acts with someone of the same sex.

The Supreme Court's Griswold v. Connecticut decision protects the liberty to buy and use contraceptives without government involvement.

It was originally decided Connecticut violated the "right to marital privacy" by involving itself in birth control choices, thus leading this to be a right to privacy case.

If the Supreme Court was to overrule Griswold, Democrats are worried that access to contraception would disappear.

For example, Ohio is considering numerous abortion bills which would state life begins at conception. With this definition, physicians, advocates and consumers are concerned their birth control method would be illegal.

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Some anti-abortion groups across the country have urged that specific pills, IUDs and Plan B are abortifacients, but this has been argued by doctors, researchers and reproductive health advocates as misinformation.

Currently, Ohio's six-week abortion ban specifically states the bill doesn’t prohibit contraception or birth control.

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However, one of the biggest names in Ohio anti-abortion lobbying is against any legislation that goes after IVF or contraception. During a debate at the Columbus Metropolitan Club on Wednesday, Ohio Right to Life President Mike Gonidakis said he would testify against bills that did so.

Changing the rules on IVF and birth control is not on the governor’s agenda, Dan Tierney, Gov. DeWine’s spokesperson, told News 5.

The U.S. House passed a bill protecting marriage equality Tuesday evening, with Ohio Republicans split among those voting for it and those voting against it, like the contraception bill.

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Gonzalez was joined by Republican Reps. Dave Joyce, from Chagrin Falls; Mike Carey, from Columbus and Michael Turner, from Dayton, in voting to support same-sex and interracial marriage.

Later Tuesday night, Republican Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH) deciding to cosponsor the companion bill in the Senate.

WEWS asked Portman's team his thoughts about the contraception bill, but hasn't heard back.

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The Iowa Attorney General's Office has paused its practice of paying for emergency contraception — and in rare cases, abortions — for victims of sexual assault, a move that drew criticism from some victim advocates.

Federal regulations and state law require Iowa to pay many of the expenses for sexual assault victims who seek medical help, such as the costs of forensic exams and treatment for sexually transmitted infections. Under the previous attorney general, Democrat Tom Miller, Iowa's victim compensation fund also paid for Plan B, the so-called morning after pill, as well as other treatments to prevent pregnancy.

A spokeswoman for Republican Attorney General Brenna Bird, who defeated Miller's bid for an 11th term in November, told the Des Moines Register that those payments are now on hold as part of a review of victim services.

“As a part of her top-down, bottom-up audit of victim assistance, Attorney General Bird is carefully evaluating whether this is an appropriate use of public funds,” Bird Press Secretary Alyssa Brouillet said in a statement. “Until that review is complete, payment of these pending claims will be delayed.”

Victim advocates were caught off guard by the pause. Ruth Richardson, CEO of Planned Parenthood North Central States, said in a statement that the move was “deplorable and reprehensible.”

Bird's decision comes as access to the most commonly used method of abortion in the U.S. plunged into uncertainty following conflicting court rulings on Friday over the legality of the abortion medication mifepristone. For now, the drug the Food and Drug Administration approved in 2000 appeared to remain at least immediately available in the wake of separate rulings issued in quick succession.

U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk in Texas, an appointee of former President Donald Trump, ordered a hold on federal approval of mifepristone. But that decision came at nearly the same time that U.S. District Judge Thomas O. Rice in Washington, D.C., an appointee of former President Barack Obama, essentially ordered the opposite.

The extraordinary timing of the competing orders revealed the high stakes surrounding the drug nearly a year after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and curtailed access to abortion across the country. President Joe Biden said his administration would fight the Texas ruling.

In Iowa, money for the victim compensation fund comes from fines and penalties paid by convicted criminals. For sexual assault victims, state law requires that the fund pay “the cost of a medical examination of a victim for the purpose of gathering evidence and the cost of treatment of a victim for the purpose of preventing venereal disease,” but makes no mention of contraception or pregnancy risk.

Sandi Tibbetts Murphy, who served as director of the victim assistance division under Miller, said the longtime policy for Iowa has been to include the cost of emergency contraception in the expenses covered by the fund. She said that in rare cases, the fund paid for abortions for rape victims.

“My concern is for the victims of sexual assault, who, with no real notice, are now finding themselves either unable to access needed treatment and services, or are now being forced to pay out of their own pocket for those services, when this was done at no fault of their own,” she said.