• assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    There have never been 60 Senate votes to enshrine abortion. The last time Democrats had 60 Senate votes at all was for 2 months early in Obama’s first term – and many of those senators were Manchin style conservative Democrats.

    If there were 50 votes in favor of ending the filibuster, then we might actually have enough. But we don’t have that either.

    If not like voters were unaware of this either. The pro lifers made abortion a constant topic of discussion. If the electorate wanted Roe enshrined, they would’ve voted for more Democrats, and Democrats who won primaries would be pro choice.

    The unfortunate reality is there’s never been enough votes to do so.