House to vote on bill guaranteeing abortion access in response to Texas law
| Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Thursday that the House will vote on legislation to guarantee access to abortion upon its return to Washington later this month after the Supreme Court refused to block a restrictive Texas law that bans most abortions.
Late Wednesday night, the court issued a 5-4 ruling denying an emergency request from abortion provides to block the Texas law, with Chief Justice John Roberts joining the three liberal justices in dissent. Pelosi called the order “a flagrantly unconstitutional assault on women’s rights and health” and a “catastrophe.” |
