Kamala Harris says she wants to end filibuster to push Roe v Wade through Congress
“I think we should eliminate the filibuster for Roe and get us to the point where 51 votes would be what we need to actually put back in law the protections for reproductive freedom, ” Harris, 59, told Wisconsin Public Radio.Codifying the high court’s landmark 1973 decision, Harris argued, would restore “the ability of every person and every woman to make decisions about their own body and not have their government tell them what to do.
Following the high court’s ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, Biden said he would support eliminating the filibuster to codify abortion rights while Harris, as president of the Senate, said she would cast a tie-breaking vote to change the rules if needed.
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