The Associated Press reports:
Senate Republicans have blocked legislation designed to protect women’s access to contraception, arguing that the bill was just a political stunt as Democrats mount an election-year effort to put GOP senators on the record on reproductive rights issues,
The test vote won a 51-39 majority, but that was well short of the 60 votes to move ahead on the legislation. It came as the Senate has abandoned hopes of doing serious bipartisan legislation before the election.
The Biden campaign posted a video on Wednesday night showing the faces of the 39 senators who voted against the legislation. (Seven Republican senators were not present for the vote.)
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These are the Trump-aligned Republicans who just blocked a bill to protect a woman’s right to contraception pic.twitter.com/H6L1X1Z0Ip
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