Senator Dick Blumenthal (D-CT) called a meeting on June 16, 2021 of the Senate Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on the Constitution to promote his bill, Protecting Roe: Women’s Health Protection Act. This is in fulfillment of the Democrat promise to codify into the law of the land the Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade so that the findings cannot be reversed (all or in part) by a future Supreme Court decision.

This comes in the aftermath of the Supreme Court decision May 17, 2021 to hear a case in which the state of Mississippi has passed a law challenging the findings in Roe v. Wade concerning such things as fetal viability and the rights of the states to regulate abortion under the 10th Amendment to the constitution. The court already has acknowledged the latter (to a limited degree) in their ruling in Casey. See the “Abortion” tab on this page. I have also written extensively on this issue in my book (pending publication).

Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) invited Melissa Ohden to testify at the hearing. She narrowly survived a late term saline abortion. As an adult she founded the Abortion Survivors Network where 356 survivors (so far) have found support and healing from the pain they experienced in knowing that their mothers tried to kill them.

Ms. Ohden’s testimony has been echoed across Washington through the lobbying efforts of the ASN’s Education and Policy Center which has met with critical congressional leadership and sympathetic members of the House and Senate.

We will be watching the progress of this bill and the Supreme Court case.

In the meantime, please visit: https://abortionsurvivors.org and https://educationandpolicycenter.com