Senate Republicans blocked an attempt by Democrats to pass a series of abortion-related bills Tuesday, as the party seeks to keep a focus on abortion and access to reproductive health care ahead of the November
It needed 60 votes to move forward. The bill, called the Right to Contraception Act, would codify the right to contraception in federal law. For Senate Democrats, the effort has been a long time coming. The legislation was first introduced in the aftermath of the Supreme Court's move to ...
Cruz said it's Allred who's radical on this issue because he believes there shouldn't be any limits on abortion. But Allred has said he wants to codify Roe v Wade into federal law. For his part, Cruz spends much of his time blasting the economic records of President Biden, Vi...
After the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade (1973) in 2022, Murray sought to codify abortion rights. In 2022 Murray won her sixth term in the Senate. The following year she was elected president pro tempore, becoming the first woman to hold the office....
abortion access. He led the effort to block attempt after attempt from extreme Republicans to ban abortion in South Carolina, and continues to fight to ensure women have access to the care they need. Senator Hutto is the primary sponsor of Senate Bill 1121, which would codify access to IVF....
When we talk about the issue of abortion, and obviously Democrats have been pushing to codify the protections that were in Roe for the Supreme Court case, obviously the votes are not there to make that happen, but why does it have to be the protections from Roe? Why can't there be som...
The bill that senators voted on this week used similar language, preserving an exception for “abortion after fetal viability when, in the good-faith medical judgment of the treating health care provider, continuation of the pregnancy would pose a risk to the pregnant patient’s life or health....
“I appreciate that Mr. Deaton has three daughters,” Warren said after Deaton explained his stance on abortion (he’s said he would vote to codify Roe into law, in part citing a desire to protect his daughters’ rights). “The justices that set Roe vs. Wade...
While Deaton embraced policies that would’ve put him more in line with modern moderate Democrats — pledging, if elected, to work to codify Roe v. Wade— Warren warned Massachusetts’ voters about the possibility of a Republican majority in the Senate. Lead ...
“I appreciate that Mr. Deaton has three daughters,” Warren said after Deaton explained his stance on abortion (he’s said he would vote to codify Roe into law, in part citing a desire to protect his daughters’ rights). “The justices that set Roe vs. Wade ...