The legislation, which states that “protections for access to abortion rights … should be supported," was blocked by Republicans who panned it as a “show vote.”
Senate Republicans on Wednesday blocked legislation led by Democrats to revive the protections of Roe v. Wade in the wake of the Supreme Court eliminating the nationwide right to abortion.
The vote was 49-44, falling short of the super-majority needed to defeat a filibuster due to broad opposition from Republicans, who dismissed it as a political stunt.
The Reproductive Freedom for Women Act, introduced last month around the second anniversary of the court decision that overturned Roe v. Wade, is just a few sentences long. It states that “protections for access to abortion rights and other reproductive health care” after the 2022 ruling “should be supported.” It adds that “the protections enshrined in* Roe v. Wade …* should be restored and built upon, moving towards a future where there is reproductive freedom for all.”
The only way that makes since is if you think AOC, Joe Manchin, Joe Biden, and every other politician that caucuses with the Dem party are on the same page and working for the same shit…
Not at all, the lack of party unity is one of the reasons they have done a suboptimal job with this and other things. Nonetheless, the flowchart is true, and you can see it over and over when any major thing happens. 100% of the time? No. Is it very often relevant to folks removed about Dems? Yes, IMO it is. But with absolute sincerity, you are welcome to disagree.
had half a century to codify Roe v. Wade and on that note Biden was not helpful in keeping Clarence Thomas out of the Supreme Court
Biden’s political career consisted of crime bills, protecting heterosexual marriage, and being a war supporter
he only changed step in the last decade or so just to be more voteable and with Harris as a VP does not show much change
I’m sorry for the multiple replies - I just keep remembering one more thing.
In this case I’m going to steal these comments from one I had saved a month ago, penned by @MegaUltraChicken@lemmy.world :
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And that control under Obama included senator Joe Donnelly, who was anti-abortion (the only way he could get elected in Indiana).
By the way, your first sentence is here:
You know that almost no one actually likes Biden as a choice right? And I absolutely don’t like Harris - I think she’ll pull us further to the right than Biden would. He’s just a better choice than the Evil Incarnate party. (and so is she) So when you folks come along to smear him like this, it falls a little flat.
“Not helpful” is cutting him a lot of slack…
He was the chair for the Anita Hill hearings and refused to let other victims testify in addition to a whole bunch of other shit
When Biden talks about “good ole days” of being friends with Republicans, he’s talking about how much they liked him when he was helping get Clarence on the court for life.