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Nancy, nearly 200 of your colleagues voted against protecting the right to birth control after Roe fell. There will be no moving to the center on their end, but you’re welcome to switch parties at any time!

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Republicans were initially going to take three-abortion related votes according to a memo dated December 30, but decided to pause on one of them—one that would have made permanent the ban on federal funding for abortion. What incredible restraint.

Don’t worry, there are likely even more dumb votes coming, since anti-abortion groups want the House to pass a nationwide six-week ban this year, among other priorities. In a letter sent in December, the presidents of the Heritage Foundation, Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, and Americans United for Life wrote that their wish list was “the floor, not the ceiling, of what we expect from a pro-life majority in the House of Representatives.”

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Planned Parenthood Action Fund (PPAF) President Alexis McGill Johnson called the GOP’s anti-abortion agenda “dangerous and unpopular” in a statement Monday.

“The House’s actions will not go unnoticed to voters, who overwhelmingly support abortion access,” Johnson said. “The midterms should have put anti-abortion politicians on notice. It’s past time they listen.”