To nobody’s surprise, both of the state’s US senators voted against a bill designed to codify abortion rights into federal law.
Senate Democrats put the so-called Women’s Health Protection Act up for a vote this week, needing 60 votes to get past a Republican filibuster. That effort failed.
Senator Roger Marshall says this effort is an attack on the unborn.
Calling the bill “immoral,” fellow Senator Jerry Moran says the bill represented “the most sweeping expansion of abortion access in our nation’s history in a desperate attempt to create a federal protection for abortion.”
Democrats made the move after last week’s Politico leak of a US Supreme Court draft opinion indicating the court’s conservative majority could overturn Roe v Wade, which has been in place since the early 1970s. The Women’s Health Protection Act would have also banned certain state requirements like waiting periods and mandatory visits.
