<p>Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) was the lone Democrat to vote against the Women&#8217;s Health Protection Act — and he explained his vote to reporters, saying that the proposed bill was not the codification of <em>Roe v. Wade</em> that many Democrats were claiming it was.</p>
<p>Manchin addressed the issue just hours before the Senate took a vote on the WHPA — <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/schumer-senate-democrats-will-force-a-vote-on-abortion-law-next-week/">a vote that was forced</a> by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) despite the knowledge that <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/manchin-sinema-dodge-far-left-calls-to-break-filibuster-to-pass-abortion-bill/">without Manchin&#8217;s support</a> it would not even garner 50 votes, much less the necessary 60 to get past the filibuster.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">MANCHIN: &quot;Make no mistake. It is not Roe v. Wade codification. It&#39;s an expansion. It wipes 500 state laws off the books. It expands abortion.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/yfj6w3gTXU">pic.twitter.com/yfj6w3gTXU</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Townhall.com (@townhallcom) <a href="https://twitter.com/townhallcom/status/1524445801933647874?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 11, 2022</a></p></blockquote>
<p>&#8220;The bill we have today to vote on, the Women’s Health Protection Act, and I respect people who support it — but make no mistake, it is not <em>Roe v. Wade</em> codification,&#8221; Manchin told reporters. &#8220;It’s an expansion. It wipes 500 — 500 state laws off the books — it expands abortion. And with that, that’s not where we are today. We should not be dividing this country further than we’re already divided.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s really — the politics of Congress that&#8217;s dividing the country, it&#8217;s not the people,&#8221; Manchin said. &#8220;They — they&#8217;re telling us what they want. And it&#8217;s just disappointing that we&#8217;re going to be voting on a piece of legislation that I will not vote for today.&#8221;</p>
<p>Senator Susan Collins (R-ME), who has proposed her own legislation codifying a federal right to abortion with fellow Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), joined every other Republican senator in voting against the measure as well — and for much the same reason as Manchin.</p>
<p>Collins criticized the WHPA as &#8220;too broad,&#8221; arguing that it did not <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/susan-collins-slams-dems-latest-attempt-to-codify-roe-v-wade/">leave room</a> for exemptions for religious organizations such as Catholic hospitals.</p>
<p>&#8220;It supersedes all other federal and state laws, including the conscience protections that are in the Affordable Care Act,” Collins <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/05/politics/susan-collins-democrat-abortion-rights-bill/index.html?utm_source=facebook&amp;utm_medium=news_tab">lamented</a>, adding, &#8220;It doesn’t protect the right of a Catholic hospital to not perform abortions. That right has been enshrined in law for a long time.&#8221;</p>
<p>The WHPA failed in the Senate on Wednesday afternoon, as expected, with Manchin ensuring that the 51-49 majority striking it down was bipartisan. Critics were quick to attack the West Virginia Democrat, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/democrats-liberals-joe-manchin-abortion-bill?intcmp=tw_fnc">blaming him</a> for the bill&#8217;s failure.</p>

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