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The Democrats Did Not Want the Abortion Bill to Pass
It’s not about women. It’s about politics.
The Senate failed to pass an abortion rights bill, but it wasn’t a bill to codify Roe v. Wade. That bill never reached the floor.
U.S. Senators Susan Collins (R-ME) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) introduced legislation that would codify the abortion rights established by Roe v. Wade (1973) and affirmed by Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992).
But instead of voting on the bill that would codify Roe v Wade, the new bill would allow abortion through nine months of pregnancy.
It was a bill that was never going to pass, and Democrats knew it.
All 50 Republicans and Sen. Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.) opposed the bill, saying it went too far.
President Biden said in a statement afterward that the vote “runs counter to the will of the majority of American people.”
But is it the will of the people, even when they are pro-choice, to allow abortions without restriction through nine months of pregnancy? Not according to polls. Most people want a compromise; something that recognizes a woman’s right choose, but also recognizes that at some point a fetus becomes a baby that can live outside the womb.
