The chairman of the Democratic National Senatorial Committee calls abortion 'a top issue' for Democrats' bid to keep the Senate, now that the Supreme Court has overturned federal protections.
in 2020, revealing that his ex-wife received a medically-necessary abortion in the late 1980s, potentially saving her life.
But while some of his colleagues are floating ideas like expanding the number of seats on the Supreme Court and eliminating the Senate’s 60-vote threshold known as the filibuster to counter the court’s decision, Peters is all in on the ballot box. Over the last several weeks since the court’s draft opinion was leaked, Democrats, many of them women, called on the Biden administration to take executive action in a bid to protect women’s healthcare rights. They made attempts at shoring up support for federal legislation, like codifying abortion pill access, and tried to pass the Women’s Health Protection Act, but it was blocked by Republicans and Senator Joe Manchin, D-W.V.
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