Senate Democrats plan to try to pass a narrowly focused bill making abortion rights part of federal law even though they don’t appear to have the votes to change the chamber’s rules to eliminate the filibuster threat.
“It’s a different world now. The tectonic plates of our politics on women’s choice and on rights in general are changing,” Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer said Tuesday. “Every senator now under the real glare of Roe v. Wade being repealed by the courts, is going to have to show which side they are on.”
The tectonic shift Schumer was reacting to came from the leak, reported by Politico, of a draft opinion from Supreme Court Associate Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. upholding a strict anti-abortion law in Mississippi and effectively returning legal power to regulate abortion to the states.
