Bid to codify abortion rights blocked in Senate

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : Planned Parenthood and its action arm reported a tenfold increase in people signing up to volunteer for mobilization efforts less than 24 hours after Politico first published Alito's draft opinion.
52% : "A national ban on abortion is the extreme of the extremes, and it is now possible in a Republican Senate," he said, noting that McConnell had said as much last week.
49% : "A priority for all that care about this issue -- the priority -- should be to elect pro-choice leaders."
49% : Those include, among other things, the right to contraception and same-sex marriage.
46% : The Senate on Wednesday failed to advance legislation that would write the constitutional right to abortion into federal law -- a symbolic gesture that Democrats promise will be only a first step in a larger strategy to mobilize Americans around reproductive rights as the Supreme Court considers overturning Roe v. Wade and related decisions.
43% :One option that Blumenthal and some other Democrats are floating is to hold votes protecting other rights besides abortion that have been secured by Supreme Court decisions rooted in the same legal theory as Roe -- rights that are not enumerated in the Constitution but have been inferred from the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment.
42% : Interviews with lawmakers this week revealed clashing views over how best to highlight the looming threat to abortion over the coming months, including whether to hold votes on narrower bills that would protect only a portion of the rights secured by Roe and related cases but could serve to more sharply highlight the depth of the Republican opposition.
42% : "It's all, you know, abortion up to the point of birth ... which doesn't even attempt to try and win over people who might be persuadable if they were a little less aggressive in their approach.
40% : Manchin, however, did not, telling reporters Wednesday that the current bill "expands" abortion rather than preserving it.
39% : Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., the lead author of the Democratic abortion rights bill, said he would be "very surprised" if Alito's opinion -- which holds that the Constitution "makes no reference to abortion, and no such right is implicitly protected by any constitutional provision" -- is ultimately adopted by the court.
38% : He warned Wednesday that if Republicans won control of the Senate in November, they would outlaw abortion nationwide.
37% :The Democratic bill outlaws any limitation on abortion before fetal viability, while allowing abortions after 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."
37% : "Let's start with the bill that fully protects women who need access to abortion," Warren said Tuesday.
16% : Collins and Murkowski objected to a lack of religious freedom protections in the Democratic bill -- a notion Democratic leaders contest -- and no serious effort was made to address their concerns, senators and aides involved in the issue said.

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