Yesterday, Democratic lawmakers took the next step in their effort to codify Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decision that circumvented the Democratic process to legalize abortion in nearly all cases.

At the Senate Judiciary Committee’s hearing on the Women’s Health Protection Act, Sen. Richard Blumenthal, the bill’s co-sponsor, criticized state laws limiting abortion, claiming, “These are laws that are advocated and passed by extremist state legislatures who are out-of-touch with mainstream America.”