Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.,) said the U.S. Senate will vote on legislation to codify abortion into law on Wednesday. The vote on the Women’s Health Protection Act of 2022 is a reaction to the leaked draft decision of the Supreme Court to overturn the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling that forced states to legalize abortion at least through the arbitrary age of “viability” — currently thought to be 24 weeks, though children regularly survive at younger gestational ages.
The pro-abortion effort to pass the Women’s Health Protection Act has been presumed as “destined to fail” by The Washington Post , but that has not stopped pro-abortion lawmakers from attempting to push it forward in an election year. Pro-abortion lawmakers have attempted to pass versions of this Act for several years.
According to March for Life’s Jeanne Mancini, the Act “would enshrine into federal law abortion on demand until the […]
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