
Senate Democrats’ attempt to enact a woman’s right to terminate a pregnancy into US law ended unceremoniously as all 50 Republican senators joined with Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia to block ending debate on a Democrat-sponsored bill codifying the protections of the Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v Wade decision.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer called for the procedural vote on Wednesday, which needed 60 senators to agree to end debate on Women’s Health Protection Act, in the days following the release of a draft Supreme Court opinion overturning Roe last week.