Texas Republicans earned friendly fire, including from yours truly, for voting for an extreme, but legally futile, de facto ban on abortion, including for pregnancies resulting from rape and incest, after six weeks. If a single state’s bill, one ultimately hamstrung by the Supreme Court, is supposed to reflect the GOP as a whole, what should we make of 46 Senate Democrats voting to legalize abortion up until the very point of a baby’s birth?

Just one Senate Democrat, Joe Manchin, voted against the Women’s Health Care Protection Act, which would ban states from imposing any rule or regulation that would be “reasonably likely” to “delay … some patients” from obtaining an “abortion at any point or points in time prior to fetal viability, including a prohibition or restriction on a particular abortion procedure” and even any restriction “on abortion after fetal viability when, in the good-faith medical judgment of the treating health care provider, continuation of the pregnancy would pose a risk to the pregnant patient’s life or health.”