Nancy Pelosi says she will push bill to BAN states from enacting restrictive ...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ripped the Supreme Court's 5-4 decision allowing a restrictive Texas abortion law to go into effect – as she vowed to bring to the floor legislation that would codify abortion protections into law.

'The Supreme Court’s cowardly, dark-of-night decision to uphold a flagrantly unconstitutional assault on women’s rights and health is staggering,' Pelosi wrote in a blistering statement. 

'That this radically partisan Court chose to do so without a full briefing, oral arguments or providing a full, signed opinion is shameful,' she said – blasting the the decision issued shortly before midnight Wednesday by a majority that included three justices appointed by President Donald Trump.

She said the Texas law, called SB8, 'delivers catastrophe to women in Texas, particularly women of color and women from low-income communities.' She called it 'the most extreme, dangerous abortion ban in half a century, and its purpose is to destroy Roe v. Wade, and even refuses to make exceptions for cases of rape and incest. This ban necessitates codifying Roe v. Wade.'

Pelosi's options to reverse the order are limited. Though she can try to move legislation through the House, it would run into a certain filibuster in the Senate, where Democrats hold only a 50-50 majority. A two-thirds vote is needed to shut down a filibuster. 

Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) released a statement calling the ruling 'extreme and harmful,' although she provided a critical vote for Justice Amy Coney Barrett, as well as for Justice Brett Kavanaugh, both of whom joined in the majority ruling. 

She said when the House comes back, it will bring up Rep. Judy Chu’s (D-Calif.) Women’s Health Protection Act 'to enshrine into law reproductive health care for all women across America.'