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House Republicans are staking their tiny majority on abortion in what they clearly believe is a secret, low-key way. They’re not giving up on a national abortion ban, which they began plotting the minute Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s decision overturning Roe v. Wade was leaked to the press in May 2022. However, the rousing success of abortion rights initiatives and measures on the midterm ballot dampened their plans a bit. So instead of making the issue the centerpiece of their agenda heading into the critical 2024 election, they’re sneaking abortion restrictions and bans into every appropriations bill they can, laying the groundwork for that national ban if Republicans should prevail in the Senate and White House.
They already succeeded in jeopardizing national security by forcing an anti-abortion poison pill into the defense authorization bill, a provision that is bitterly opposed by the Senate majority and President Joe Biden. Now the House extremists are pushing that fight (alongside trans care and contraception) using poison pills in each of the appropriations bills, including extremely convoluted funding restrictions and bans.
