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Senate Democrats defeated a budget-reconciliation amendment Sunday that would have limited federal pregnancy programs to biological females, rejecting the Republican challenge to gender-inclusive terms such as “pregnant people.”
The amendment brought by Sen. Marco Rubio, Florida Republican, failed on a 51-50 vote during the marathon vote-a-rama on the sweeping $740 billion climate, tax and healthcare package.
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“Let’s be here about what’s going on here: This is a procedural attempt by Republicans to derail our ability to get this bill across the finish line and deliver for families in our country,” Ms. Murray said. “You know, it’s actually outrageous that Republicans are trying to talk about pregnancy when in this country right now, they are forcing women to stay pregnant no matter their circumstances, pushing cruel and extreme abortion bans.”
The bill said that federal programs for pregnancy would be available to "pregnant people." Rubio wanted to amend it so that it would apply only to "pregnant women." He said science shows that only women can get pregnant. Obviously this amendment was not designed to slow things down, as Democrats complained. Rubio was trying to prevent federal money from being wasted on pregnant men.
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