Posted on 05/11/2022 4:55:35 PM PDT by Morgana
The Senate failed in a 49-51 vote to codify abortion rights Wednesday afternoon in a bill that even some moderate abortion rights supporters said went too far.
The bill was expected to fail but gave Democrats a chance to put on a public display of support for abortion rights -even Vice President Kamala Harris showed up to the Capitol to preside over the vote.
A group of fired-up female members of the House Progressive Caucus marched toward the Senate side chanting 'my body, my decision' as the upper chamber voted on the House-passed bill.
The bill would have needed 60 votes, 10 from Republicans, to pass, but failed to garner even a simple majority as Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., voted against it, as did pro-choice Republican Sens. Lisa Murkowski, Alaska, and Susan Collins, Maine. Murkowski and Collins had submitted their own more narrow bill to codify abortion rights, the Reproductive Choice Act, but Schumer refused to put it up for a vote.
'We're going to be voting on a piece of legislation, which I will not vote for today.,' Manchin told reporters on Capitol Hill on Wednesday.
'But I would vote for a Roe v. Wade codification if it was today – I was hopeful for that,' the West Virginia Democrat assured. 'But I found out yesterday in caucus that wasn't going to be and you probably heard of that by now.'
In a show-vote, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer attempted to file cloture to stop Republicans filibustering the Women's Health Protection Act, which was introduced by Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut.
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Mine too. It’s really funny if you’ve lived in NY and in the deep south.
These are funny. Guiliani makes an appearance in one.
To the female crazies, It is not your body you are killing.
And if it's a play on words...
You're on the street, not the judges
sitting in court, and their "decision"
is what I'll give credence to, thank you very much.
Romney is better than Manchin.
That’s rich....willing to force vacinnes and masks on everyone .
I think the worst thing about Romney was his weak performance vs. Caliph Baraq in 2012. Unemployment was still high, gas was $4 bucks a gallon, and the dual stench of Obamacare and Benghazi were pervasive.
Our side needs to run hard and fast how they thought they should decide if some untested experimental Frankenstein vaccine was injected into others bodies.
That was different because “abortion is healthcare”
That movie has some very clever parts ...
Can someone please interpret this for me? Isn’t he saying two different things here?
“”We’re going to be voting on a piece of legislation, which I will not vote for today.,’ Manchin told reporters on Capitol Hill on Wednesday.
“”But I would vote for a Roe v. Wade codification if it was today – I was hopeful for that,’ the West Virginia Democrat assured. ‘But I found out yesterday in caucus that wasn’t going to be and you probably heard of that by now.””
Insurrection. Automatic disqualification from office.
BBM - baby's bodies matter
Marcus Garvey championed the Back to Africa movement. Can’t we find someone to champion a Send American Progressive Women to the Moon movement?
Where were these miserable women when our government was forcing people to get their poison vax?Why aren't they in solitary where the Jan 6 people were put?
Agreed. Weak Republican. Still better than Manchin.
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