Last night, the Associated Press reported that Senate Democrats bill to write Roe v. Wade

into law blocked by GOP-led filibuster as Supreme Court ways abortion case. That was the AP headline.

MSNBC similarly reported that a GOP-led filibuster derailed the bill to codify Roe v. Wade protections.

And since the AP and MSNBC reported it, you will not be surprised to find out that that is not true.

The Democrats abortion bill failed by a vote of 49 to 51. That is not a filibuster.

The filibuster is a tool to delay or block legislation in the Senate. It has been used by both

parties and defended by both parties, including people who are now in the leadership of both parties.

Many, many times throughout history, but it was not used here because you don't need to use the filibuster

if the other side can't even win a simple majority of votes for their bill.

I obviously do not put it past MSNBC and the AP to lie, but in their defense, I also wouldn't

be surprised if the geniuses running those news organizations simply didn't know what the word

filibuster means. Regardless, contrary to what the AP and MSNBC reported, the bill did not

fail because of any strange rules, any chicaneery, it failed because most senators voted against it,

and most senators voted against it because it would have outlawed virtually every abortion

restriction in the country. It actually did not seek to codify Roe v. Wade into law.

If that's all the bill had sought to do, the bill almost certainly would have passed because

squishy Republicans like Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski almost certainly would have voted for it.

The bill went further because Democrats have adopted an extreme position on abortion that has

absolutely no basis in the American legal tradition and almost no currency among the American people,

just 6% of whom support it, which is why they're taking to the streets and throwing

Molotov cocktails through the windows of pro-life pregnancy centers and screaming in front of the

houses of Supreme Court justices and scaring their kids in the middle of the night. The pro-abortion

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