Facing pressure from voters upset about last month’s Supreme Court ruling that reversed the constitutional right to abortion, congressional Democrats are responding with legislation.
PUBLISHED 1:55 PM EDT Jul. 14, 2022Facing pressure from voters upset about last month’s Supreme Court ruling that reversed the constitutional right to abortion, congressional Democrats are responding with legislation
The bills are expected to fail in the Senate, but allow Democrats to demonstrate to voters they are trying to mitigate the impact of the Supreme Court ruling while putting Republicans on the record ahead of this fall’s midterm elections. One, called the Women’s Health Protection Act, would restore the right to abortion nationwide. The House passed the same bill in September, but it was blocked twice in the evenly divided Senate, where it needed 60 votes to overcome a filibuster.
Senate Democrats also have introduced their own legislation to protect patients’ ability to travel across state lines for abortions. Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev., one of the bill’s lead sponsors, sought unanimous consent for the proposal Thursday, but Sen. James Lankford objected. Last month, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, giving state legislatures the authority to decide their own abortion laws. Twenty states have passed laws to ban or mostly ban abortion, and others are expected to follow.
Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, a Republican who supports abortion rights, did not comment about the specific bill introduced by Sen. Cortez Masto, but told reporters that she supports the rights of Americans to travel for medical procedures.
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