Kamala Harris Calls For Rule Change To Move Pro-Abortion Bill

Posted by New York Families Action

Showcasing her deep and abiding commitment to the pro-abortion cause, Vice President Kamala Harris has come out in support of a damaging U.S. Senate rules change. In the future, if Democrats controlled both houses of Congress and the White House, the Vice President’s proposed rule change would likely make it possible to pass a federal law imposing a “right” to abortion on all 50 states.

The United States Senate is sometimes referred to as the world’s greatest deliberative body. Over many years, the U.S. Senate has developed a set of complex rules and procedures to govern its operations. One of those rules is the filibuster rule, which allows individual senators to block or delay action on a nomination or a piece of legislation. Under Senate rules, if a cloture motion—a motion to limit debate and end a filibuster—regarding a given bill receives favorable votes from three-fifths of sitting U.S senators, the bill proceeds to a final vote. If fewer than three-fifths of Senate members vote in favor of a cloture motion, the bill fails.

According to CNN, “nearly two dozen US states have banned or limited access” to abortion following the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2022 decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. Accordingly, pro-abortion members of the Senate are highly motivated to pass federal legislation to reinstate the abortion-on-demand regime that existed for nearly five decades under Roe v. Wade.

In fact, Democratic members of the U.S. Senate are so eager to pass a permissive abortion law that the vast majority of them are willing to create an exception to the filibuster rule so that they can prevent pro-life senators from blocking such legislation. Vice President Harris has now joined those pro-abortion senators in supporting such an exception; the Vice President has stated that

“we should eliminate the filibuster for Roe, and get us to the point where 51 votes would be what we need to actually put back in law the protections for reproductive freedom and for the ability of every person and every woman to make decisions about their own body and not have their government tell them what to do.”

Pro-life voters should be absolutely clear about what it would mean for the Democratic Party to take control of the White House and both houses of Congress this November. Such an outcome would most likely lead to the enactment of a pro-abortion law that would erase the pro-life progress that has been made in states throughout the country since 2022.