Politicians tried to head off a suspected move by the US Supreme Court to overturn laws that grant women a constitutional right to an abortion. And there are now fears over what rights may be lost next.
The bid to preserve the rights - first enshrined in the Roe v Wade bill of 1973 - camethat appeared to suggest justices planned to overturn the almost 50-year-old legislation this summer.
But at the US Senate on Wednesday, the move was blocked by Republicans - a stark demonstration of America's partisan divide on the issue. The Democrat-led House of Representatives passed the bill, but it failed 49-51 in the upper Senate chamber.but believed the new bill was too broad.Many states in the US create their own, individual laws. Federal laws, however, apply to everyone and are achieved by a bill passing both houses of Congress.
President Joe Biden said Republicans"have chosen to stand in the way of Americans' rights to make the most personal decisions about their own bodies, families and lives", and urged voters to elect more abortion-rights legislators in November
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