A Failed Attempt To Codify Roe with Sen Kirsten Gillibrand
What A Day
What A Day
4.6 • 12.6K Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2022
⏱️ 18 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
The Senate failed to pass a bill on Wednesday that would effectively codify the right to an abortion. The bill, called, “The Women’s Health Protection Act,” was expected to fail because Democrats didn’t have enough votes to pass it and beat a filibuster.
Democratic New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand joins us to discuss what comes next.
And in headlines: Palestinian-American reporter Shireen Abu Akleh was shot and killed in the West Bank, over 107,000 people died from a drug overdose last year in the U.S., and someone leaked footage of actor Jesse Williams naked in a Broadway show.
Show Notes:
- Ban Off Our Bodies Rally on May 14th – https://bit.ly/3P1KxgN
- Donate to abortion funds, take action and more via Vote Save America – votesaveamerica.com/roe
Follow us on Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/whataday/
For a transcript of this episode, please visit crooked.com/whataday
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | It is Thursday, May 12th. I'm getting a russet. |
| 0:07.7 | And I'm Priyanka Erbindi, and this is But A Day, where we're preparing some of our worst |
| 0:12.1 | posts of all time for when Elon Musk inevitably welcomes Donald Trump back to Twitter. |
| 0:17.6 | Yes, I have brought the Crasenstein brothers back for some replies. |
| 0:22.0 | Oh my god. That's my surprise for you, Donnie. |
| 0:25.3 | Wow, miss them. What are they up to? |
| 0:31.2 | On stage show, drug overdose deaths hit a new record in the US last year, |
| 0:35.6 | plus a passenger on a Florida flight had to help land a plane after the pilot fell ill. |
| 0:41.2 | A truly wild story. |
| 0:43.5 | Yes. But first, today we wanted to turn to the latest on reproductive rights in the US. |
| 0:49.1 | Yesterday, the Senate failed to pass a bill that would have effectively codified the right to an |
| 0:54.2 | abortion. Here is Vice President Kamala Harris announcing the final tally. |
| 0:58.5 | On this vote, the A's are 49. The A's are 51. Three fifths of the senators duly chosen and sworn, |
| 1:06.4 | not having voted in the affirmative. The motion is not agreed to. |
| 1:10.4 | It's important to note that this bill, which is called the Women's Health Protection Act, |
| 1:15.3 | was doomed from the start and expected to fail. The Democrats knew they didn't have enough votes |
| 1:21.2 | to pass it and beat a filibuster, which would have required 60 votes. Every single Democratic |
| 1:27.6 | Senator voted for it, except one, you know, the perpetual thorn in our side, closet Republican, |
| 1:34.0 | Joe Manchin, he voted against it. Vice President Kamala Harris presided over the vote, |
| 1:38.8 | and just minutes after that happened, President Biden released a statement saying, quote, |
| 1:43.6 | this failure to act comes at a time when women's constitutional rights are under unprecedented attack. |
| 1:49.8 | So, Gideon, what is next here? I think that's what everyone's asking. Besides talking again about |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from What A Day, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of What A Day and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.