US Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has confirmed he and his fellow Democrat lawmakers will attempt to codify abortion rights into law on Wednesday local time
The vote follows a leaked Supreme Court draft ruling indicating the nation’s highest legal body will move to overturn the historic Roe and Wade ruling, which currently defines abortion as a Constitutional right.
While the vote is almost certainly set to fail given the slim majority the Democrats hold in the Senate, Bruce Wolpe from the US Studies Centre says it will give all of America the chance to see where their leaders fall on this controversial issue.
Majority Leader Chuck Schumer believes “every American will see how every senator stands”, adding Republicans “can’t duck it anymore”.
He has labelled the Supreme Court’s draft decision as an “abomination” and says the majority of Americans actually want to preserve the right to have an abortion.
The doomed vote has also reignited calls for an end to the Senate’s filibuster rule, which is preventing the Democrats from passing this legalisation in their own right.
