President Joe Biden and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Thursday promised to take action after a new law in Texas that bans most abortions went into effect. The House of Representatives will, after it returns from recess, take up a bill that would limit states from restricting access to abortion, Pelosi said in a statement. The Women’s Health Protection Act would “permit health care providers to provide abortion services without limitations or requirements that single out the provision of abortion services for restrictions that are more burdensome than those restrictions imposed on medically comparable procedures, do not significantly advance reproductive health or the safety of abortion services, and make abortion services more difficult to access.” The Supreme Court late Wednesday declined to block the new Texas law, Senate Bill 8, prompting furious statements from many Democrats. Pelosi said the law “necessitates codifying Roe v. Wade,” the Supreme Court decision decades …
Pelosi Pledges Action on Pro-Abortion Bill in Response to New Texas Law
September 2, 2021
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