Elizabeth Warren is calling on voters to elect just two more Democratic senators this fall, in order to secure enough votes for filibuster reform or abolition with the goal of enshrining federal abortion protections into law.
that lawmakers can take right now to expand and protect abortion access, one of the widest-reaching actions that voters can take is to elect lawmakers to overcome conservative Senators Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema’s opposition to filibuster reform in the Senate.
The Senate needs just “two more senators on the Democratic side, two senators who are willing to protect access to abortion and get rid of the filibuster so that we can pass it,” Warren said. “And yes, John Fetterman, I’m looking at you in Pennsylvania. Mandela Barnes, I’m looking at you in Wisconsin.”
“We bring them in, then we’ve got the votes, and we can protect every woman no matter where she lives,” she said. (Trans people also benefit from abortion access and are arguably
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