Democrats plan vote on abortion rights bill after Supreme Court doesn't block Texas law

The House will vote on an abortion rights bill later this month, but it is expected to stall in the Senate.

The House will vote in late September to protect abortion rights, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said this week, after the Supreme Court rejected a request to block the new Texas law outlawing most abortions in the state after six weeks. The court's late-night ruling left Democrats in Washington and across the country scrambling to respond, sparking vows for action on Capitol Hill and renewed calls from activists for the expansion of the Supreme Court currently controlled by conservatives. "It's so stunning," Pelosi said Thursday at an event in Texas, pledging a House vote when the chamber returns at the end of the month to "make sure that women everywhere have access to reproductive health that they need." Democrats have coalesced around the Women's Health Protection Act, which would "enshrine the protections of Roe v. Wade into law," Rep. Judy Chu, D-Calif., the lead author of the bill, told ABC News.