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"LIVE: I'm speaking on the Senate floor ahead of today's vote on the Women's Health Protection Act to protect the right to abortion nationwide.

What #WHPA does is simple: it follows the Constitution and nearly half a century of precedent to give patients the right to get an abortion--and doctors the right to provide abortion care--no matter where in America that patient or doctor lives.

Some might ask--why do we need a bill like #WHPA if the right is already in the Constitution?

Sadly, we need this bill because too many extreme, right-wing politicians clearly don't trust patients or doctors.

In 2021 alone, Republican legislators across the country passed 100+ abortion restrictions.

In Texas, there's a law that bans abortions before many women even know they're pregnant.

And there's a real threat SCOTUS will overturn #RoeVWade.

Republicans claim that if Roe is overturned, abortions will end. That's not true--they'll still happen. But many people won't have safe options, and even more so than today, it'll be patients who don't have the means to get an abortion who will face the biggest barriers.

Your ability to make your own decisions about pregnancy & parenting shouldn't depend on who you are, how much money you make, or your zip code.

Unfortunately, that's the future Republicans want. But it's not what Democrats, the people of WA state, & majority of Americans want.

Sometime in the next few months we will very likely see the historic reversal of a fundamental right Americans have had for nearly 50 years.

A right that generations of Americans have grown up depending on--and want to see protected.

Tonight's vote on #WHPA is historic.

This is each senator's chance to stand up for an individual's right to decide what to do with their body and future. I know I'll be voting yes, and I hope my colleagues do too."

@PattyMurray

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