Wed Sep 29, 2021 – 11:18 am EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — In case you missed it: House Democrats just passed the most expansive federal abortion access bill in American history, with plenty of help from professional activists.
All but one Democrat, Rep. Henry Cuellar (TX), voted for the so-called Women’s Health Protection Act of 2021 (H.R.3755), which narrowly advanced to the Senate on partisan lines last week.
The bill is doomed to fall far short of the 60 votes needed to overcome a Republican filibuster, but it offers a glimpse into leftists’ fear of a conservative majority on the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade. Take it from Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), who announced that their goal is “codifying Roe v. Wade.”
The legislation would overwrite state abortion restrictions like the “heartbeat bill” recently passed in Texas, which requires that a physician first check for a heartbeat and bars him from aborting the fetus if he detects one.
But like virtually everything backed by radicals, it goes far beyond abortion into the bizarre netherworld of “reproductive justice” — combating “systems of oppression, lack of bodily autonomy, white supremacy, and anti-Black racism,” as well as “enslavement, rape, and
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