Last week, the Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer called for a vote on the Women’s Health Protection Act. There was never a chance it would pass. “It showed only how hardened the parties have become, which everyone already knew,” Jill Lepore writes.
“Every American will see where every senator stands,” Chuck Schumer, the Senate Majority Leader, said last week, in calling for a vote on the Women’s Health Protection Act. The bill would have banned nearly all restrictions on abortion, making it the most permissive abortion bill ever to be considered in Congress. There was no chance that it would pass. In September, it passed only narrowly in the House, and along party lines.
Unfortunately for Schumer, the Senate vote on the Women’s Health Protection Act serves Republicans in addition to Democrats, because the bill is out of step with public opinion on abortion; the majority of Americans favor keeping abortion legal, but with some restrictions. You can’t be a little bit pregnant. But you can be something other than uncompromisingly pro-life or unwaveringly pro-choice .
If constitutional amendments were ratified by a simple majority of the popular vote , the Equal Rights Amendment would have passed in the nineteen-seventies, and the right-to-life amendment would have failed. The people, as the political scientist Austin Ranney observed, “are considerably more receptive than members of Congress to constitutional change.
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