Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s effort to get his colleagues on the record about codifying abortion rights into federal law was set to backfire spectacularly Wednesday as Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) told reporters he would vote against beginning debate on legislation. The test vote on the Women’s Health Protection Act was always going to fall well short of the required 60 “yeas”, but Manchin’s announcement hours before the scheduled afternoon vote ensured a bipartisan majority would filibuster the legislation. “They’re trying to make people believe that this [bill] is the same thing as codifying Roe v. Wade,” Manchin told Politico. “And I want you to know, it’s not. This is not the same. It expands abortion.”
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