I'm glad this bill failed. We Democrats have once again stood up to the Republicans' War on Women, and we must continue the fight to protect women's reproductive rights.
The Republicans are on your side.
Since when has legalizing abortion been in the beliefs of most republicans?
Not most registered Republicans, but most GOP politicians. Republican-appointed justices handed us Roe v. Wade, and the current SCOTUS, though it is mostly Republican appointees, won't overturn it. The GOP controlled all branches of government a decade ago and did nothing then too.
Roe is probably gone if the GOP wins the presidency in 2016. I don't see how Ginsburg makes it through 2020, and you can probably get past the Senate with a Huntsman-type - clearly pro-life, but otherwise quite moderate.
Roe and the three trimester concept is gone now. It's been replaced by Sandra Day O'Connor's undue burden on the mother standard. Which leaves open the issue as to what constitutes an "undue burden." There is no need to overturn anything per se, as opposed to just interpret those two words, which could open the door to allowing more restrictions on late term abortions.
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