Republicans blocked a bill to codify and expand abortion rights Wednesday, leaving Democrats well short of the 60 votes needed to circumvent the filibuster.
FUCK Joe Manchin
I sincerely wish that every last one of these heinous excuses for a human being would have been aborted. Alas.
Republican Senators and Congress members will always have access to abortion when they need it.
The real question is this: How important is this issue to people who aren’t already fully supporting the Democrats. Will this issue bring anyone to the polls in November who wasn’t already expected to vote for a Democrat? I actually don’t know.
My respect for Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) diminishes every day. Susan Collins, no respect to give her for anything, ever.
I think you ask an interesting question, not sure how easy it would be to try and discover these shy creature hiding among rabid howling mob of Republicans.
That Republican senator choose to hide behind the old chestnut that women will use late term abortions as a means of birth control says more about them. The data is out there, they ignore it. The stories are out there they don’t want to hear it.
But galls me the most is that they and fellow Republicans in the state legislatures won’t make plans for the fall out that will come. And that I find inexcusable. But then someone who knows Latin please translate their new moto:
Cruelty Is the Basis Of How We Rule
SCOTUS (aka ‘the other shoe’) hasn’t dropped yet.
“Republicans Block Bill To Protect Abortion Rights After Tarring It As Radical.”
So codifying a right firmly established by 50 years of Supreme Court precedent is radical.
Says the radical representatives of a radical party of radical insurrectionists and radical theocrats worshipping a twice-impeached radical who appointed radical judges to uphold a radical agenda that attempts a radical tyranny to subjugate 70% of Americans to Minority Rule by radicals.
Republicans spent their floor speeches before the vote largely coalesced behind the same talking points: that the “radical” bill would allow for late-term abortions, as well as “abortions on demand.”
Know what “abortions on demand” are? They are medical procedures done without having the patient be subjected to waiting periods, unnecessary intrusive examinations, and videos that place shame and guilt on the patient. FUCK YOU GQP.
Just because someone “supports” and aligns with Dems doesn’t mean that they vote for them, or even vote at all. Lots of people sit out elections because they’re lazy, they don’t think it matters, because “they’re all the same”, etc. Issues like this get many such voters to vote. It’s been shown that elections are usually won by base turnout more than anything else. There aren’t that many swing voters left so it’s basically GOTV. I happen to believe that quite a few voters can be turned, but that’s a years-long process and doesn’t apply to any given election cycle.
If they had a proposed bill affirming that it is right and proper for the sun to rise in the east and set in the west, with an added provision to maintain napkin purchases at the Capitol commissaries at current levels, the GOP would have called it radical. No need to say why. It’s a Democratic thing, so it’s ipso facto radical. See you later at the child-trafficking get-together.
Essentially the impending SCOTUS decision on Abortion boils down to one thing and one thing only: “Who do you trust to make this decision, the pregnant woman or a legislator?”
Radical? It’s been the law for 50 years.
Fuck you, Mitch. And try to have a bigger vocabulary, will you? You sound just like Trump.
I like your response better. 
Wait, the turtle was against it too? I’m really confused about the turtle and turtle-identifying population’s position on bodily autonomy. The presentations were not clear.
True that despite warnings, many Dems have not been able to put enough of the fear of dog in people to get out enough votes. However, without hypotheticals, this may change the calculus. “See what they have done? And we know what will they do next” works better to mobilize than “See what they might do?” when everyone was saying, “Oh, they’ll never overturn Roe, just chip away at it.”
