“This is a key moment to advocate and not give up. So what I’m doing and what many of my colleagues are doing is pushing for a vote next week,” she added. “We will be aggressive with all of our colleagues and with our Republican allies to vote for the legalization of Roe v. Wade. We are not giving up and we will never give up and we will keep fighting and if the American people are paying attention, then the issue will be on the ballot in November.”
Gillibrand pushed Sunday for a Senate rule change to get rid of the obstruction, telling Tapper: “The argument that if we remove stalling, (Senate Minority Leader) Mitch McConnell and Republicans across the country are going to do bad things, these bad things are already happening.” .
Democratic Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut predicted Sunday that if Republicans win the Senate in November, “they will definitely pass a national abortion ban.”
“They got rid of the stalling that Supreme Court justices face for the express purpose of appointing the court justices who would bring down Roe v. Wade,” he said in an interview with Fox. “So I think it’s natural to assume that they would also change the rules to pass a national abortion ban if they win control of the Senate in this upcoming election.”
According to Alito’s draft, the court would void Roe v. Wade’s federal constitutional right to abortion. Under current law, the government cannot interfere with a woman’s choice to terminate a pregnancy before about 23 weeks, when the fetus can live outside the womb.
A final opinion on the case is expected later this spring or early summer.
This story was updated with additional details on Sunday.
