Home to vote on abortion rights invoice after Supreme Courtroom declines to dam restrictive Texas regulation

The Home will vote on a reproductive rights invoice when it returns later this month, following the Supreme Courtroom’s refusal to dam one of many nation’s most restrictive abortion legal guidelines that took impact in Texas this week, Speaker Nancy Pelosi stated Thursday.

The Democratic-held chamber plans to take up the Girls’s Well being Safety Act after lawmakers come again to Washington on Sept. 20. The laws, led within the Home by Democratic Rep. Judy Chu of California, would set up the authorized proper to abortion nationwide and stop states from placing medically pointless restrictions on the procedures.

Supporters intention to successfully make the 1973 Roe v. Wade resolution federal regulation as restrictive measures in Texas and different states threaten to undermine the landmark ruling affirming the suitable for ladies to have an abortion.

“Each girl, in every single place has the constitutional proper to primary well being care,” Pelosi stated in an announcement Thursday.

The Texas regulation “is probably the most excessive, harmful abortion ban in half a century, and its objective is to destroy Roe v. Wade, and even refuses to make exceptions for instances of rape and incest. This ban necessitates codifying Roe v. Wade,” she continued.

Regardless of her slim majority within the Home, Pelosi might have sufficient votes to move the invoice. Nevertheless, it faces steep odds of passage within the Senate.

The Democratic caucus holds solely 50 seats within the Senate, the place the measure would want 60 votes to move. Solely two Republican senators — Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Susan Collins of Maine — assist abortion rights.

The Supreme Courtroom refused to dam the Texas restrictions in a 5-Four resolution late Wednesday. Chief Justice John Roberts joined the court docket’s three Democratic-appointed justices in dissenting.

The regulation bans most abortions as early as six weeks into being pregnant, when many ladies might not know they’re pregnant. Personal residents are additionally allowed to file civil lawsuits in opposition to abortion suppliers, probably bogging them down in pricey litigation.

Folks affected by the Texas regulation might nonetheless file a authorized problem to the measure. It might take months or years for a case to succeed in the Supreme Courtroom.

President Joe Biden on Thursday referred to as the court docket’s resolution “an unprecedented assault on a girl’s constitutional rights beneath Roe v. Wade, which has been the regulation of the land for nearly fifty years.” Nevertheless, he has restricted energy to fight state legal guidelines until Congress passes laws.

In his assertion Thursday, Biden stated he would direct the chief department to establish methods to guard abortion rights in Texas.

An extra case earlier than the Supreme Courtroom poses a menace to Roe v. Wade. The court docket is about to listen to arguments this 12 months a few Mississippi regulation that, if it takes impact, would ban most abortions after 15 weeks.

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