The day after President Donald Trump was inaugurated to his second term, Senate Democratic leaders went to the floor to attack a bill that congressional Republicans hoped they could send to Trump to sign into law.

It was the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act.

“Look, it is Donald Trump’s first week as president, and Republicans are already escalating their war on women’s reproductive freedoms,” said Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.

“So, we are here because we need to expose this bill exactly for what it is: myth-based fearmongering,” said Schumer. “It is an attack on reproductive care.”

“It is anti-women, anti-family, anti-science,” he said.

“So, we should resoundingly reject this deeply partisan bill when it comes to the floor later this week,” he said.

Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin, D-Ill., followed Schumer.

“Roe v. Wade enshrined into law something that should have been a given in America: In America, women have the right to make decisions about their own bodies,” Durbin said.

“But after nearly 50 years of progress, in........

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