New Mexico Democratic Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham is shocked that her state’s Democratic-controlled Senate failed to pass a bill codifying the Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling.

The proposed measure, HB 51, would have repealed decades-old, mostly nonenforceable statutes that define “abortion,” outline parental consent requirements for minors seeking to terminate a pregnancy, and categorize the receiving or performing an abortion as a fourth-degree felony.

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