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House passes bill preserving the right to abortion

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The bill now goes to the Senate where it is not expected to have the necessary votes to pass.
The House on Friday passed the Women’s Health Protection Act, a bill aimed at preserving access to an abortion nationwide, as abortion rights are being threatened across the country by Republican-led state legislatures. The House passed the measure on nearly a party-line vote, with Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar of Texas voting with Republicans against the measure. The vote was 218-211. The bill now goes to the Senate where it is not expected to have the necessary votes to pass, because legislation in the chamber requires Republicans to join Democrats and get at least 60 votes to break the filibuster. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had announced that the House would take up the legislation, which has 214 Democratic sponsors, following a controversial Texas law that bans abortions at six weeks went into effect because the Supreme Court formally denied a request from Texas abortion providers to freeze the state law. On Friday ahead of the vote, Pelosi framed the Supreme Court’s decision as bringing “shame to the United States Supreme Court.

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