A bipartisan group of senators is leading a second attempt to codify federal abortion protections formerly provided by Roe v. Wade. Cosponsors of the compromise bill include: - Tim Kaine - Kyrsten Sinema - Lisa Murkowski - Susan Collins
The compromise legislation
attempts to find a middle ground by creating a federal right to abortion up to viability, while preserving conscience provisions that would continue to exempt health care providers with religious objections.Of note: The legislation does not define viability, leaving it to a patients' health care provider to decide at which point "there is a realistic possibility of maintaining and nourishing a life outside the womb."Kaine acknowledges that the measure faces long odds in the Senate, but he tells Axios he's holding out hope that the shock of the Supreme Court's decision overturning Roe will create room for compromise.after the massacre in Uvalde, Texas.
"We don't have 60 votes now, but we didn't have 60 votes on the gun bill a couple months ago," Kaine says. "That catastrophic nature —
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