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    House Democrats, galvanized by Texas ban, vote to legalize abortion nationwide

    by Jennifer Haberkorn, Los Angeles Times Sep 24, 2021 5 minutes

    WASHINGTON — The House on Friday voted to legalize abortion nationwide until fetal viability, and even though the legislation is almost certain to fail in the Senate, it marks a historic victory for abortion rights supporters following a decades-long fight.

    The 218-211 vote on the Women's Health Protection Act is the first the House has ever held to set a federal legal standard on abortion, and the first time in nearly 30 years that the House has approved what advocates consider a major proactive abortion rights bill.

    Texas' recent ban on abortion after about six weeks of pregnancy has galvanized Democrats to be more forceful in their support for abortion rights and confident in the political upside of the issue.

    It is a tide that has been slowly turning over the last decade, amid the election of more Democratic women to Congress, the decline of

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