All of the opportunity of talking about this, only one republican stood up once to actually state out loud why it was that he was voting against this thing. good old 70-year-old senator dan coats worked his way up to the podium today and gave a 12-minute and 15-second statement, explaining why he was voting no, but he was the only one. not a single other republican has been willing to say anything out loud about why they were voting no on this thing. all the 2016 hopefuls in the republican party who are in the senate, all voted no on this, but none of them wanted to explain it. then there s the new abortion ban that senate republicans unveiled today with their big lindsey graham press conference. republicans, of course, spent last few years rolling back abortion rights in the states more aggressively than at any times in roe versus wade. and they have brought up anti-abortion bill after anti-abortion bill year after year. their first efforts came down to the efforts to defund planned p
Republican stood up once to actually state out loud why it was that he was voting against this thing. good old 70-year-old senator dan coats worked his way up to the podium today and gave a 12-minute and 15-second statement, explaining why he was voting no, but he was the only one. not a single other republican has been willing to say anything out loud about why they were voting no on this thing. all the 2016 hopefuls in the republican party who are in the senate, all voted no on this, but none of them wanted to explain it. then there s the new abortion ban that senate republicans unveiled today with their big lindsey graham press conference. republicans, of course, spent last few years rolling back abortion rights in the states more aggressively than at any times in roe versus wade. and they have brought up anti-abortion bill after anti-abortion bill year after year. their first efforts came down to the efforts to defund planned parenthood. they have been more devoted to
All of the opportunity of talking about this, only one republican stood up once to actually state out loud why it was that he was voting against this thing. good old 70-year-old senator dan coats worked his way up to the podium today and gave a 12-minute and 15-second statement, explaining why he was voting no, but he was the only one. not a single other republican has been willing to say anything out loud about why they were voting no on this thing. all the 2016 hopefuls in the republican party who are in the senate, all voted no on this, but none of them wanted to explain it. then there s the new abortion ban that senate republicans unveiled today with their big lindsey graham press conference. republicans, of course, spent last few years rolling back abortion rights in the states more aggressively than at any times in roe versus wade. and they have brought up anti-abortion bill after an anti-abortion bill year after year. their first efforts came down to the efforts to defund planne
Rolled back abortion rights that are protected by roe versus wade and the constitution. another three states have new bans like this that have not yet taken effect. back in april, arizona s republican governor jan brewer signed the most restrictive one of these bans yet. it bans abortions a little earlier than the rest of the 20-week bans but uses the same
Abortions, which are supposed to be constitutionally protected. they get to enforce these bans, even though they re unconstitutional. they ve not been able to end abortion rights but six states are enforcing laws that have rolled back abortion rights that are protected by roe versus wade and the constitution. another three states have new bans like this that have not yet taken effect. back in april, arizona s republican governor jan brewer signed the most restrictive one of these bans yet. it bans abortions a little earlier than the rest of the 20-week bans but uses the same reasoning in doing so. it s set to go into effect in arizona at the beginning of next month. one by one, in state after state, these laws have been allowed to take effect and chip away at abortion rights established in 1973 by roe versus wade. as of today, there s reason to believe that s not going to be allowed to happen anymore. this is a landmark decision. today, the center for reproductive rights and the alcu f