The battle over abortion rights will make its way to the Senate floor on Tuesday when Republicans bring two longstanding bills with little chance of passage up for votes before the chamber.
The bills, which have been introduced annually over the past few years, will pin down senators' stances on a key 2020 issue and follow through on a request from President Donald Trump.They will allow Republicans to capitalize on last year's state-level anti-abortion momentum in the lead up to November's election, as well as to bolster Trump's recent efforts to secure the support of anti-abortion voters by painting Democrats as extremists on the issue.
Joe Donnelly of Indiana backed the measure, while Republican Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski opposed it.The second bill to be considered Tuesday is the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, sponsored by Nebraska Republican Sen. Ben Sasse, that would require abortion providers to work to"preserve the life and health" of a fetus that was born following an attempted abortion as they would for a newborn baby, or face up to five years in prison.
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