Welcome to the Daily Article podcast for Thursday, May the 12th, 2022.

I'm Chris Elkins with the Denison Forum, narrating today's article written by Dr. Ryan Denison.

He is the Denison Forum senior editor for theology and has written more than 400 articles for the

Denison Forum. Yesterday,

the Senate voted on the Women's Health Protection Act, which, had it passed, would have gone

beyond simply codifying Roe v. Wade to also rolling back a number of abortion restrictions

that have been passed at the state level in recent years.

It predictably failed to garner the requisite 60 votes, the final tally was 494 and 51 against,

with even Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, acknowledging that the vote was primarily symbolic. A largely similar

bill had been voted down 46 to 48, less than three months ago, and no real efforts were made to

alter the bill in a substantive way prior to yesterday's proceedings. Rather, Schumer said that the vote was intended to let every American see where every single

U.S. senator stands on the issue.

As Democrat from Illinois Representative Sherry Bustos told the Washington Post, and I quote,

you guys are all covering the vote, right? This will be in papers all over the

country. It'll be on the nightly news. It'll be on talk radio. I think of the old saying,

it's important to be caught trying, and we're going to try really hard to do everything we can to highlight this.

End quote.

Bustos is hardly alone in her belief that raising awareness is a valuable end

and to itself, regardless of whether that awareness leads to real change.

The crowds that have spent the better part of a week protesting outside the

homes of conservative Supreme Court justices, for example, would appear to share her view.

Those protests continue to make headlines with no end in sight. Even among progressives,

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