Senators Disagree On Women’s Health Care Act
U.S. Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., released the following statement after voting in favor of advancing the Women’s Health Protection Act to a final vote in the Senate. The vote failed 49-51.
“Women must have the right to make their own health care decisions without interference from their government. If the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, it will be ripping away a right that women have had for nearly 50 years,” Tester said. “That’s why I voted to codify the protections in Roe—because removing those protections will have devastating consequences for women across the country. Those consequences start with Republican politicians criminalizing women and their doctors for exercising a longheld right.”
U.S. Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., founder and chair of the Senate Pro-Life Caucus, voted against the act.
“Under the Democrats’ bill, a preborn child, simply for the crime of being ‘unwanted’, or ‘inconvenient’, or ‘unplanned’, could be subjected to brutal dismemberment procedures, in which the unborn child bleeds and feels excruciating pain as she dies from being pulled apart limb from limb..The Democrats’ abortion bill would codify an extreme abortion regime that is aligned with brutal nations such as China and North Korea –which would impose abortion up until the moment of birth without any limits in all 50 states… In a nutshell, this radical bill would make the United States of America one of the most dangerous places in the world to be a preborn child,” Daines said.
