The state’s top Democratic politician has joined several of her House colleagues in an attempt to force a vote on legal protections for contraception.

House Minority Whip Katherine Clark, the second-ranking Democrat in the House of Representatives, said Tuesday that she and other lower-chamber lawmakers will introduce a discharge petition aimed at forcing a vote on the Right to Contraception Act.

“Republicans have a choice to make. They can put aside their MAGA ideology, join us — join the American people — and get this bill passed,” Clark said.

If Republicans block the bill from going to a vote, their “anti-freedom extremism” will be “on full view for the American people,” Clark said.

The Right to Contraception Act, according to the bill’s text, would “protect an individual’s ability to access contraceptives and to engage in contraception and to protect a health care provider’s ability to provide contraceptives, contraception, and information related to contraception” by making access to contraceptives a legally protected right.

Clark’s discharge petition, according to the rules of Congress, could remove the Right to Contraception Act from committee — it’s been stuck in the Committee on Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health since shortly after its introduction by North Carolina Rep. Kathy Manning last June — and force it to a vote on the House floor.

Doing so would require the support of 218 other members of the House.

According to Clark’s office, the bill currently has the support of 200 House co-sponsors, but attempts to protect contraception haven’t seen support from congressional Republicans in the past.

The loss of Roe v. Wade, as well as the upcoming presidential election, mean that people are paying attention to what lawmakers in Washington do next, according to Clark.

“The country is watching. Their constituents will remember where they stood when it mattered,” Clark said.

The move to force a vote on the Right to Contraception Act comes as lawmakers in the Senate are set to consider a similar bill.

The Bay State junior senator, U.S. Sen Ed Markey, said that a planned vote on Wednesday will test his Republican colleagues in the upper chamber.

“This vote will put each Senator on the record on their willingness to stand up for the health and freedom of every American. Protecting the right to access and provide contraception free from government interference should be easy, but MAGA extremists want to make it hard. We look forward to voting yes to protect this right,” he said in a joint statement along with a pair of his senate colleagues.