Manchin Will Join GOP In Vote No On Abortion Rights!

Cowardly lion. The West Virginia senator is the biggest headache to Democrats.

Let this soak in.... Culture wars is white nationalism. 

It is a distraction the Republicans use whenever Democrats are in charge. The Republicans offer no solutions to America's problems. They are literally blaming the president for everything despite his predecessor allowing a deadly pandemic disrupt our very ways of life. It opened up the pay gap in jobs. 

Many Americans are not willing to work hard for less pay and people are still dying from the coronavirus. Over 1.04 million people have died from the pandemic.

It is a worldwide problem. 

On top of that Congress is stuck in gridlock despite Democrats having a slim majority.

If the Democrats had more lawmakers in the Senate and Republicans willing to cross party lines to work on issues, things could be done. It would make this Democratic senator less relevant.

West Virginia is practically Republican and its only Democratic senator is voting with the state. He is not only a burden on the party, but one of two members of the caucus devoted to stalling President Joe Biden's agenda.

Rep. Karen Mooney (R-WV) defeated Rep. Karen McKinley (R-WV) in a bitter primary redistricting. Washed Up 45 endorsed Mooney and he easily won. The Democratic senator endorsed McKinley and that candidate lost.

It shows that Democrats have pretty much lost West Virginia. Even the state capital and largest city Charleston went to Washed Up 45.

Sen. Karen Manchin (D-WV) confirms that he will be a NO on the the House bill that protects women's reproductive rights. It is another disgraceful moment for women and those who believe in American privacy.

Manchin’s decision, which he had kept a tight lid on all week, means the bill will fall short of even getting 50 votes in the Senate, where it will be opposed by all Republicans. It would need 60 votes to advance. 

“We’re going to be voting for a piece of legislation that I will not be voting for today,” Manchin told reporters. 

“But I would vote for a Roe v. Wade codification if it was today. I was hopeful for that, but I found out yesterday in caucus that that wasn’t going to be,” Manchin added. 

Manchin was also the only Democrat who voted against the bill earlier this year, but Wednesday’s vote comes in the wake of a leaked Supreme Court draft that, if the court’s final decision, would strike down Roe v. Wade.

The draft decision has supercharged the fight over abortion on Capitol Hill, with Democrats pledging to use it as a key midterm issue. 

Democrats made changes to the bill from earlier this year to try to assuage members of their caucus. In a win for that effort, holdout Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA) announced this week that he supported the substance of the revised bill. 

Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA) finally got out women's personal business.

They removed a nonbinding findings section that, among other provisions, referred to restrictions on abortion as perpetuating “white supremacy” and called them “a tool of gender oppression.”

The revised bill would still prevent governments from limiting a health care provider’s ability to prescribe certain drugs or from providing immediate abortion services if a delay would risk a patient’s health, according to the Congressional Research Service. 

The bill also prevents governments from being able to require that a patient make “medically unnecessary in-person visits” before an abortion, and would also prevent the government from requiring patients to disclose why they are seeking an abortion. 

The bill also broadly would prevent governments from enacting any law that would create similar limits or that “singles out the provision of abortion services, health care providers who provide abortion services, or facilities in which abortion services are provided” and “impedes access to abortion services.”