Democrats’ effort to secure US abortion access in law blocked by Republicans

US Vice President Kamala Harris talks to the media after the Senate procedural vote to the Women’s Health Protection Act. Image: Yuri Gripas/ABACA US Vice President Kamala Harris talks to the media after the Senate procedural vote to the Women’s Health Protection Act.

His party’s slim majority proved unable to overcome the filibuster led by Republicans, who have been working for decades to install conservative Supreme Court justices and end Roe vs Wade. The vote was 51-49 against proceeding, with 60 votes needed to move ahead. The outcome of the conservative-majority court’s ruling, expected this summer, is sure to reverberate around the country and on the campaign trail ahead of the autumn mid-term elections that will determine which party controls Congress.

Harris can provide a tie-breaking vote in the 50-50 split Senate, but that was beside the point on Wednesday. One conservative Democrat, Joe Manchin of West Virginia, voted with the Republicans, saying he supported keeping Roe vs Wade but believed the current bill was too broad. Democratic senator Catherine Cortez Masto said most American women have only known a world where abortion access was guaranteed but could face a future with fewer rights than their mothers or grandmothers.

Abortion rights activists protest on Michigan Avenue in the Loop in Chicago, after the Senate vote. Source: AP/PA Images

Well done to all for standing up & protecting life. This barbaric law would have allowed abortions upto birth. RoeVWade

Great news.These ghouls wanted to make abortion legal in every state right up until the moment of birth.

It's quite shocking that in 2022 healthcare is being taken away from women in the US

The handmaid's fantasy creeps closer

Democrats make an “effort” but Republicans “block”. Always loaded rhetoric.

Also no mention by on abortions in this bill be granted at full term? Why would you leave that out?

The Republucan filibuster could come back to haunt their candidates in the midterm elections. The Supreme Court is no longer independent but is a politician partisan group.

It was blocked by 51-49 vote not a fillibuster. If you’re going to try “report” on news at least have some clue what you’re “reporting”. Typical agenda shit from

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