What: Senate Democrats called out Republicans for proposing a federal pregnancy database that would not only recommend fake clinics that push made-up procedures like “abortion pill reversals,” but would also conveniently give the government a way to track who is pregnant and when.
Why it matters: As Senate Democratic women, led by Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), put it: “Senate Republicans want to mandate the creation of an online federal database where women will be encouraged to register their pregnancies with the government in order to push them toward anti-abortion propaganda and dangerous crisis pregnancy centers—this tells us exactly how Republicans will weaponize the whole of government to restrict a woman’s freedom to choose and force them to stay pregnant no matter what.”
Source: Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.)