Legislation to enshrine the right to an abortion failed to advance in the US Senate on Wednesday in a vote testing each senator’s stance on the highly polarising issue ahead of the midterm elections.
A key procedural vote on the Democrat-backed Women’s Health Protection Act, which aimed to protect access to abortion and healthcare providers’ ability to offer the procedure, failed to garner the 60 votes needed, falling 49 to 51.
Joe Manchin, the Democratic senator from West Virginia, broke from his party and joined the 50 Republican senators in voting against advancing the bill.
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