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Democrats tried and failed for a second time on Wednesday to codify abortion access on a nationwide basis via the Senate in a show vote intended to widen the political rift and solidify their radical base over the issue ahead of midterm elections.
The Associated Press disingenuously reported that the bill was blocked by a GOP-led filibuster. The bill needed 60 votes, including 10 from Republicans, to pass. It didn’t even get a simple majority of the vote.
A large group of approximately three dozen pro-abortion House Democrat women from the Progressive Caucus marched on the Senate Wednesday as the vote took place, chanting, “My body, my choice!” A ton of reporters were predictably on-hand to take photos and videos of the leftist protest.
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) was incensed after she found out the vote failed, stating, “I believe in democracy, and I don’t believe the minority should have the ability to block things that the majority wants to do. That’s not in the Constitution. […] It’s time to get rid of the filibuster.”
At least 37 House Dems are in the Senate chamber, including Jayapal, Clark, Omar, Tlaib, Cicilline, Bustos, Takano, Escobar, Espaillat
They applauded when @PattyMurray wrapped up her speech and were told those expressions not allowed in the chamber.
— Scott Wong (@scottwongDC) May 11, 2022
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democrats' bill to write Roe v. Wade into law blocked by GOP-led filibuster as Supreme Court weighs abortion case.
— Zeke Miller (@ZekeJMiller) May 11, 2022
What did the filibuster have to do with the failure of the Dems' abortion bill in the Senate today????
51 Senators — a majority — voted NO on the bill.
It's like living in some surreal twisted world where Dems and media allies keep pretending the filibuster stopped the bill. https://t.co/Nqx9LPIMws
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) May 11, 2022
President Joe Biden didn’t waste any time in condemning Republicans for blocking the bill at a time when “women’s constitutional rights are under unprecedented attack.” That led to a call urging Americans to elect more Democrats in November so that they could shove through legislation the left wants to be passed.
“Republicans in Congress – not one of whom voted for this bill – have chosen to stand in the way of Americans’ rights to make the most personal decisions about their own bodies, families, and lives,” Biden proclaimed in a statement. “To protect the right to choose, voters need to elect more pro-choice senators this November, and return a pro-choice majority to the House.”
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) was the one who called for the vote after an opinion draft authored by Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito was leaked to Politico that indicated the landmark abortion case Roe v. Wade was on the brink of being overturned. He called the bill “urgent” and was intended to prevent states from passing extreme anti-abortion legislation that “would send women’s rights back into the Stone Age,” according to Fox News.
Americans will not forget who voted to protect a woman’s right to make her own decisions about her body—who voted to protect abortion rights.
Today’s vote was just one step.
We can't allow this shameful backslide from MAGA Republicans.
We will keep fighting for women’s rights.
— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) May 11, 2022
Even Senator Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) voted against it claiming that the Women’s Health Protection Act went way too far. Manchin, who is a pro-life Democrat, commented that the bill goes way beyond codifying Roe v. Wade by negating state regulations, including bans on abortion earlier than 24 weeks.
“Make no mistake, it is not Roe vs. Wade codification,” Manchin remarked according to Fox News. “It is an expansion.”
Two pro-choice Republicans, Sens. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Susan Collins of Maine, both rejected the bill because they also said it went too far by undercutting state limits on abortion, which include bans on gender-based abortion. They introduced their own version of a bill to codify Roe v. Wade that was ignored by Schumer and not even put up for a vote.
Sen. John Cornyn, (R-Texas) called the legislation a “radical, abortion-on-demand bill” that takes away protections for religious liberty, conscience, taxpayer funding, and partial-birth abortions. It “essentially makes abortion available on-demand from the time of conception till the time of delivery,” he told Fox News.
“Let’s get something straight: overturning Roe isn’t going to stop abortions. It’s only going to stop women from getting safe abortions and women will die as a result,” Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.) asserted in a statement.
Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) argued that women’s freedom to choose is in peril due to trigger laws that are already on the books in at least 13 states that she claims will roll back abortion access if Roe v. Wade is overturned.
“The people of this country do not want to go backwards,” she declared in a statement.
“It’s a vote against women, plain and simple,” Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) also publicly stated.
If Roe v. Wade is overturned, abortion will not be illegal. A determination of legal status will be handed back to the individual states.
Warren, the media, and Democrats were thrashed on social media over the bill’s demise:
Is she drunk? The bill failed with 49 votes. She was in the minority.
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) May 11, 2022
This is the president of the White House Correspondent Association.
Everything about this is a lie. It wouldn’t have codified Roe and it wasn’t blocked by a filibuster.
Why are you lying? https://t.co/EoUKGXOStv— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) May 11, 2022
It failed via bipartisan vote.
— Cernovich (@Cernovich) May 11, 2022
The bill didn’t codify Roe, it wasn’t blocked by a filibuster, it failed to get 50 votes.
Other than that, some solid work by the AP.
— Constitutional Muster (@ChipBorman) May 11, 2022
Does it count as a filibuster if they don’t even get to 50 votes?
— Tim Hagle (@ProfHagle) May 11, 2022
American Pravda with the minimalist headline. It went way beyond Roe. It even put “person” over “women”. Crazy people.
— Doctor of Coding Thinkology (@bradcundiff) May 11, 2022
The bill didn’t have majority support, you halfwit.
51 opposed it.— Titan (@BOOB_level) May 11, 2022
Minority?
You. Didn’t. Even. Have. Fifty. Votes.
— Jon 🔬 (@JonnyMicro) May 11, 2022
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