Watch VideoThe House passed legislation Friday that would guarantee a woman’s right to an abortion, an effort by Democrats to circumvent a new Texas law that has placed that access under threat.
The bill's 218-211 approval is mostly symbolic, as Republican opposition will doom it in the Senate.
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