Monday, a draft opinion of the Supreme Court leaked that says the majority of the court voted to overturn Roe v. Wade. Because of this, many Democratic members of Congress are calling for abortion protections to be passed by Congress and codified into law.
According to U.S. Rep. Barry Moore (R-Enterprise), Democrats will not be successful in passing any kind of abortion bill this year.
Moore joined WVNN’s “The Yaffee Program” on Friday to react to the push by Democrats in Congress to codify Roe v. Wade into federal law.
“I don’t think that they’ve got the votes,” he argued. “You know they tried HR 1 when we first got there…HR 5 was similar, HR 8 where it put the guys in girls’ sports, those sort of things. I think this Roe v. Wade, if they try that, it’s going to fall on deaf ears, I think it’s going to die just like the other egregious votes this year.”
He also said that U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W. Va.) gave him hope that Democrats wouldn’t be able to abolish the filibuster to pass an abortion law.
“He says he’s not going to do away with it, and thank goodness for Joe, he’s the most powerful Joe in D.C. right now. It’s not Biden, it’s Manchin, brother,” Moore said.
The congressman said he was thrilled to see the abortion precedent finally overturned.
“I’m grateful that it’s going away,” he said. “I’m as pro-life as any candidate that we’re going to have or that you’re ever going to hear of, but I think it was flawed policy. Fifty years later, we’ve got the science, we know it’s a baby in the womb.”
While Moore liked the draft opinion, he was upset with how it was leaked to the public.
“My concern initially is the leak,” he said. “I think that showed the means justifies the end with the crowd on the left with this, in fact, we need to prosecute whoever this is to the extent of the law, and I think it allows the left to try to mobilize against the justices before the final ruling comes down. So that’s the biggest concern for me.”
The congressman thinks the left’s arguments against Roe v. Wade being overturned don’t make sense.
“So an affront on privacy,” Moore said about the Democrats’ argument on abortion rights being privacy rights. “Three months ago, it was vaccine mandates and we need to know if you’re vaccinated, if you get the jab or keep your job and all of that. So it’s amazing to me how quickly, how rapidly the narrative has changed, and also a few months ago or weeks ago we couldn’t even define what a woman is and now we’re all up in arms about women’s rights.”
Yaffee is a contributing writer to Yellowhammer News and hosts “The Yaffee Program” Weekdays 9-11am on WVNN. You can follow him on Twitter @Yaffee
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