{"id":1556585,"date":"2022-07-15T14:34:43","date_gmt":"2022-07-15T18:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1556585"},"modified":"2022-07-15T14:34:45","modified_gmt":"2022-07-15T18:34:45","slug":"house-democrats-pass-bill-codifying-roe-v-wade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-democrats-pass-bill-codifying-roe-v-wade\/","title":{"rendered":"House Democrats Pass Bill Codifying Roe v. Wade"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhouse-democrats-pass-bill-codifying-roe-v-wade%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1556585&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>On July 15, Democrats in the House of Representatives voted to advance a bill that would codify the Supreme Court\u2019s (SCOTUS) 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade into law, sending it to the Senate where it is likely to fail.<\/p>\n<p>The bill, dubbed the Women\u2019s Health Protection Act (WHPA), passed the House in a 219\u2013210 vote. Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas), the only pro-life Democrat in the lower chamber, alone defected from his party in opposition to the bill.<\/p>\n<p>In a floor speech defending the bill, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said: \u201cAs extreme Republicans continue their assault on reproductive rights, our Ensuring Women\u2019s Right to Reproductive Freedom Act will ensure that the fundamental right to travel and obtain needed health care remains in the hands of the American people. And our Women\u2019s Health Protection Act will once again make the protections of Roe v. Wade the law of the land.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, despite marketing the bill as a codification of Roe v. Wade, this bill goes further.<\/p>\n<p>In the standard set out by Roe, states were prohibited from restricting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-abortion\">abortion<\/a> before the so-called \u201cviability line\u201d\u2014an arbitrary line defining the point at which a baby can survive independently outside of his mother\u2019s womb, and which even top biologists in favor of abortion contest the definition of.<\/p>\n<p>But the WHPA has faced criticism in the past for going beyond codifying the standard set out in Roe v. Wade.<\/p>\n<p>The bill, said House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) in a speech opposing the bill on the House floor, \u201cgoes way further than Roe under the guise of codifying Roe to push some of the most extreme \u2026 pro-abortion legislation that we\u2019ve seen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Under Democrats\u2019 WHPA, Scalise noted, the U.S. would join the thin ranks of countries like China and North Korea who share<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On July 15, Democrats in the House of Representatives voted to advance a bill that would codify the Supreme Court\u2019s (SCOTUS) 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade into law, sending it to the Senate where it is likely to fail. 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