Warren: Democrats 'will suspend the filibuster' to codify Roe v. Wade

Progressive Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) announced Wednesday that there are currently enough votes in the Senate to suspend the filibuster to codify Roe v. Wade and abortion rights if Democrats win control of the House and keep the Senate and White House.

“We will suspend the filibuster. We have the votes for that on Roe versus Wade,” Warren said on ABC’s “The View.”

She said if Democrats control the White House and both chambers of Congress in 2025, “the first vote Democrats will take in the Senate, the first substantive vote, will be to make Roe versus Wade law of the land again in America."

The Massachusetts Democrat said her party would only need “skinny” majorities in the House and Senate to override the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which overturned the national right to an abortion established by Roe v. Wade in 1973.

“We can make Roe versus Wade law of the land if we have, and I have to be clear, we’ve got to have a majority in the House — skinny majority. We can take a really skinny majority in the Senate, I’ll take fifty. And a Democrat in the White House. We have those three things we will suspend the filibuster,” she said.

Senate Republicans last week blocked a bill to enshrine the protections of Roe v. Wade into law. It failed by a vote of 49 to 44, falling well short of the 60 votes needed for bills to pass the Senate under regular order.

President Biden pledged to make Roe v. Wade the “law of the land” at his March State of the Union address.

“If Americans send me a Congress that supports the right to choose, I promise you: I will restore Roe v. Wade as the law of the land again,” Biden told a joint session of Congress that included Supreme Court justices in the audience.