Democrats continue to show some divide on issues important to their party, after a plan to protect abortion access was met with surprising opposition this week.
“The Kaine-Collins bill does not codify Roe,” U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren said on NBC News.
“No,” Warren said when asked if she would support the bill.
Massachusetts’ senior senator will not support a bipartisan bill aimed at protecting access to reproductive care, she said late Tuesday, a decision that all but kills a Senate plan to restore some of the protections recently overturned by the Supreme Court.
Warren’s ‘no’ vote is as good as a death sentence for the bipartisan plan introduced Monday by Democratic Senators Tim Kaine of Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, and Republican Senators Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska.
The bill, officially the Reproductive Freedom for All Act, according to its text, aims “to guarantee that Americans have the freedom to make certain reproductive decisions without undue government interference.”
“For decades, the Supreme Court of the United States has held that the liberty protected by the Fourteenth Amendment encompasses a right to make certain reproductive decisions without undue government interference,” the bill reads.
Even with Warren’s support the bill’s fate was in doubt, since Senate Democrats would need all 48 members from their party, both independents, and at least ten Republicans voting in favor to move the bill forward.
Warren said it does not go far enough to reestablish the protections guaranteed by Roe and that it isn’t really an improvement from where the nation’s laws stand now.
On Thursday, she joined Hawaii Sen. Mazie Hirono and Wisconsin Sen. Tammy Baldwin in urging Biden to use his executive authority to make abortion medications more readily available nationally, even as some Republican-led states move to restrict both abortion and contraception.
“As states escalate bans and restrictions on abortion, there is more urgency than ever to take immediate steps to expand access to medication abortion,” the lawmakers wrote.
“We support your efforts to take all possible actions to protect abortion access, and as you work to meet this goal, we urge you to consider these options, which we believe will have the greatest impact on expanding access to medication abortion across the nation,” they wrote.
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This Executive Action malarkey has become a curse on the Presidency. It is abused, misused, over-used and bypasses the function of Congress. This is one thing I am confident the forefathers would fix if they could.
The abuse of executive orders by a president started under Bill Clinton. Gee, another dummycrat.
AND note, when Bush Jr was in, as well as Trump, the left and media, WHINED ABOUT EVERY Executive action either took..
BUT WHEN ITS ONE OF THEIR OWN DEMS, they seem to care not.
It’s all because, let’s face it, it’s obvious the House Representatives are too cowardly to officially take a stand and put their name behind what the want to do.
That’s why they continuously go to courts, farming out judges to do their dirty work so they can say, “Hey, the judge said so…”
And while Executive Orders have been around for quite awhile, yeah, but starting with Clinton and especially with Obama, it became the go to strategy for the do-nothing Congress, with Biden signing a record 22+ EOs in his first three hours, setting the course of the Country on the direction it is, which I fear has a good chance to become irreputably damaged before saner minds can come in a correct the course.
Next November cannot come too soon, and if we do not retake the House, and hopefully the Senate, we may not make to 2024 intact and solvent.
“The Kaine-Collins bill does not codify Roe,” says Pocahontas,,,,well if she is so obsessed with codes how about using Hammurabi’s codes,
Assault “If an [awīlum] should blind the eye of another [awīlum], they shall blind his eye”… or If a person aborts a man’s child without his permission she also shall be aborted:
Slaves “If a slave should declare to his master, “You are not my master”, he [the master] shall bring charge and proof against him that he is indeed his slave, and his master shall cut off his ear.” Let the Government sharpen their knives because Warren is a slave of the state and of their socialist masters, when democrats run the show. She wants to codify Roe,,( Roe = egg),,, But she just ends up laying one. I’ll just bet her first husband had to tie her down to the birthing table kicking and screaming before he got a live birth out of her body to birth Amelia and Alexander back in the 70s. Aborting a baby is NOT healthcare, but deathcare. Only a fool could not tell the difference.
We do not live in a dictatorship though many Democrats are under that impression now that they have lost in the Court which stated such laws are in the province of the staes and the people elected representatives. We’ve had enough of these liberal executive orders that have already brought the country to the brink of disaster, we don’t need more!