Senate Democrats Reintroduce Sweeping Bill To Codify Federal Abortion Protections

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womens health protection act
Senate Democrats Reintroduce Sweeping Bill To Codify Federal Abortion Protections
The bill is overwhelmingly likely to fail by filibuster and would be blocked by the GOP House, but Democrats say “Republicans have ushered in a crisis.”
By Alanna Vagianos
Mar 8, 2023, 05:31 PM EST


A group of Senate Democrats reintroduced the Women’s Health Protection Act on Wednesday evening — legislation that aims to codify federal abortion protections since the Supreme Court repealed its landmark 1973 ruling Roe v. Wade.

The legislation, sponsored by Democratic Sens. Tammy Baldwin (Wis.) and Richard Blumenthal (Conn.), aims to “protect a person’s ability to determine whether to continue or end a pregnancy, and to protect a health care provider’s ability to provide abortion services.”

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and President Pro Tempore Patty Murray (D-Wash.), along with Baldwin and Blumenthal, led 45 other Democrats in introducing the WHPA on the Senate floor on Wednesday evening.

“Republicans have ushered in a crisis—a nightmare for women, for patients, and for doctors alike—with their nonstop attacks on every woman’s reproductive rights,” Murray said in a statement. “They’ve passed one extreme abortion ban after the next, and as they fail to convince the American people to get on board with their extreme agenda, they’ve tried to force it on women across the country with threats, intimidation, and outrageous lawsuits.”

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https://www.huffpost.com/entry/senate-democrats-reintroduce-womens-health-protection-act_n_640901bbe4b06acd7c83f417

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1. K & R!

[SheltieLover]

2. Excellent! 👏👏👏👏

[Maraya1969]

3. Does anyone think this will pass?

[babylonsister]

4. Apparently no,

The bill is overwhelmingly likely to fail by filibuster and would be blocked by the GOP House, but Democrats say “Republicans have ushered in a crisis.”

but it's the principle. Calling them out!

[Grins]

8. Nope. Even if it does, it's the wrong bill.

It’s too narrow and could be reversed by another legislature. Not well thought out at all.

[crickets]

5. Some of these Repub Senators will be up for reelection next year.

Find some way to make them cast a vote on this bill so their constituents know where they stand. Screw the filibuster. I am so sick of it.

[niyad]

6. KNR

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7. like it