Although they knew it was doomed from the start, U.S. Senate Democrats have failed to pass a vote to protect the country's abortion rights, as a potential Supreme Court decision overturning the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling approaches.
The Senate bill, which would have codified the 50-year-old court ruling as federal law among other guarantees to access, needed 60 votes to pass an automatic filibuster. But the final tally came to 49 in favour and 51 against in the evenly divided Senate.
And as Jackson Proskow reports, Republicans are already hinting at, if they get their way, a national ban on a woman's right to choose.
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