Abortion Law Co-Sponsor: State Can’t Impede’ Right to Abortion

Wednesday on CNN’s At This Hour, Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), a co-sponsor of the Women’s Health Protection Act, the abortion legislation voted on and rejected in the Senate on Wednesday, said that what the legislation “does is, first, codify Roe v. Wade,” and in addition, “take the step of making it clear that a state cannot impede this constitutionally-protected right, as so many have.”

Baldwin stated, “I am a co-sponsor, as you’ve mentioned, of the Women’s Health Protection Act, and what it does is, first, codify Roe v. Wade. But then, because we’ve seen hundreds of bills introduced and many passed in states across the country that restrict access to abortion care and full reproductive freedom for women, we also take the step of making it clear that a state cannot impede this constitutionally-protected right, as so many have.”

Baldwin added that the bill “keeps the states from interfering with Roe v. Wade and restricting access. [Those are] the additional provisions of the Women’s Health Protection Act. And they need to be there.”

So the bill would prevent each state from voting on whether abortion should be legal. So much for democracy. It would also provide for the murdering of unborn children up to the very moment of birth.