Posted on 10/01/2021 7:00:02 PM PDT by marshmallow
WASHINGTON, Sept 24 (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives approved legislation on Friday to protect abortion services against growing Republican-backed state restrictions, including a Texas law that imposes a near-total ban on abortion, but the bill is unlikely to pass the Senate.
The Democratic-controlled House voted 218-211 largely along party lines to pass the legislation called the Women's Health Protection Act. Just one Democrat, Representative Henry Cuellar of Texas, voted against the proposal.
The bill would protect abortion services and pre-empt many restrictions Republicans have passed at the state level, such as those requiring ultrasounds or other tests.
The Senate will vote on the legislation "in the very near future," Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said in a statement.
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Killing babies always number 1 for the party of Satan..GOP could give 2 f’s either..alot of the rinos anyway
Headline bias is outrageous.
Abortion rights? For whom?
So 218 to 211 is the margin soon to be murdered pre-born babies are watching with great interest. Life or death.
The DemonRat Party is a death cult. There is no other way to see it.
Redundant. The states have written their own laws already.
More clown show, who really gives two farts what the Congressional circus and pony show is doing while Auditing the obviously fraudulent vote for every honest politician is life and death.
Every single one of these clowns are Communist tools or traitors.
We need to abort Congress, NOW.
Doesn’t every birthing person in America have access to birth control?
Just think how close the GOP is to taking back the House and Senate and I have a sick feeling they don't want it.
What part of the Constitution grants FedGov the power to do this?
How about a Baby’s Health Protection Act? It really their body that gets killed. Do they have a choice?
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