you heard the democratic leader in the senate george mitchell say that is too close for comfort. it is time to take the whole issue of protecting abortion rights out of the hands of the supreme court. it is too dangerous there. he said in june, 1992 rather than leaving it up to the court congress should make an end run around the court. congress should just pass a federal law that would protect a woman's right to have an abortion in all 50 states. he promised he would bring the full united states senate to a vote on the freedom of choice act which would enshrine abortion rights into federal law. in the end he did not follow through on that promise. but the idea of doing that, the promise to do that, has stuck around in democratic politics ever since in a weird and kind of frustrating way. go back to the 2008 presidential campaign, barack obama then a candidate said if he were elected president he would make sure there was a vote on the freedom of choice act. he said signing that bill would be, quote, the first thing i'd do as president. he was elected president but
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