Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., laid out the Senate Democrats’ plan in response to the number of anti-abortion laws that have passed at the state level across the country on Wednesday.
“First, [Sen.] Patty Murray has put together a resolution that says we support Roe; we support a woman’s right to have her own healthcare and control her own body. Just about every Democrat has already signed on to it, and we are asking — every day we will be be asking our Republican colleagues, ‘Are you with Roe or against Roe? You have to state a position,'” Schumer said in an MSNBC interview.
Schumer said while Republicans may say they do not support the recent anti-abortion bill that passed in Alabama, they do support federal judges who have stated their opposition to the landmark case that made abortion legal across the country.
“So we are putting the heat on them. Hypocrites,” he said.
Alabama’s new anti-abortion law, the Human Life Protection Act, means doctors who perform an abortion could go to prison for up to 99 years. Women who get an abortion would not receive jail time.
