As expected, Democrats fell short of the 60 votes needed to open debate on codifying Roe v. Wade in law.
that would end the right to legal abortion.
The draft, while not binding, showed that the court’s conservative supermajority has the votes needed to killThe protests against anti-abortion Democrats worked on at least one senator, however. On Tuesday, pro-abortion activists staged a sit-in at the Harrisburg, Penn., office anti-abortion Sen. Bob Casey to demand his vote on WHPA. Casey said
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