The US Senate took the first steps toward a vote on a radically pro-abortion bill that aims to invalidate nearly every pro-life, state law in the country and ensure a legislative right to abortion up to birth in the event of the Supreme Court striking down the current abortion regime which is based solely on past judicial decisions.

The Democratic Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer moved the vote on the Women’s Health Protection Act last week.

The WHPA, backed by the Biden administration, effectively codifies abortion on demand throughout pregnancy, going so far as to nullify state pro-life laws, including those that protect unborn children after they’re able to survive outside the womb. The bill would forbid states from enacting even the most modest of abortion regulations such as informed-consent laws, waiting periods, ultrasound requirements, and bans on abortions chosen for discriminatory reasons (such as the unborn child’s sex or diagnosis with a disability).

The same measure has already passed the House on a nearly party-line vote, with only one Democrat, Henry Cueller of Texas, voting against it.