Railing against “extremist Republican lawmakers,” Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) on Friday unveiled her latest presidential-campaign pledge: enshrining Roe v. Wade in federal law.
Between the enactment of abortion restrictions in several states and a Supreme Court that is potentially amenable to overturning Roe, Democrats are worried that the abortion-on-demand regime could be in peril.
“Roe v. Wade established a woman’s constitutional right to safe and legal abortion and has been the law of the land for over 46 years,” Warren wrote in a Medium.com post. “Congress,” she declared, “should act to ensure that the will of the people remains the law of the land.”...