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The newly minted leader faces the challenge of forging GOP unity on the life issue.
WASHINGTON — In his first weeks as speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, R-La., faces the formidable task of uniting a deeply divided Republican caucus — and one immediate obstacle is an internal GOP struggle over inclusion of language in a funding bill that would bar the mailing of the abortion pill mifepristone.
Even though a Nov. 17 funding deadline is looming to avert a government shutdown, Tom McClusky, director of government affairs for Catholic Vote, told the Register that he did not see “a scenario where that language is pulled” from a measure to fund the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration, because he didn’t see Johnson backing down from defending the language.
Reps. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., Lori Chavez-DeRemer, R-Ore., and GOP lawmakers from some districts that President Joe Biden won in 2020 in New York are among the party holdouts opposed to the provision. Some of these lawmakers told Politico that they did not see that language passing through the Senate, where Democrats hold a narrow majority, while others said the issue was for individual states to decide.
McClusky said the pro-life movement must continue to work to educate these members on the issue. He pointed out that Mace claims to be pro-life but is not firm on the issue “when it comes to the abortion pill, which is the biggest threat currently to the unborn.” According to a February 2022 survey, the abortion pill accountsfor more than half of the abortions in the country.
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WASHINGTON — In his first weeks as speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, R-La., faces the formidable task of uniting a deeply divided Republican caucus — and one immediate obstacle is an internal GOP struggle over inclusion of language in a funding bill that would bar the mailing of the abortion pill mifepristone.
Even though a Nov. 17 funding deadline is looming to avert a government shutdown, Tom McClusky, director of government affairs for Catholic Vote, told the Register that he did not see “a scenario where that language is pulled” from a measure to fund the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration, because he didn’t see Johnson backing down from defending the language.
Reps. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., Lori Chavez-DeRemer, R-Ore., and GOP lawmakers from some districts that President Joe Biden won in 2020 in New York are among the party holdouts opposed to the provision. Some of these lawmakers told Politico that they did not see that language passing through the Senate, where Democrats hold a narrow majority, while others said the issue was for individual states to decide.
McClusky said the pro-life movement must continue to work to educate these members on the issue. He pointed out that Mace claims to be pro-life but is not firm on the issue “when it comes to the abortion pill, which is the biggest threat currently to the unborn.” According to a February 2022 survey, the abortion pill accountsfor more than half of the abortions in the country.
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Speaker Mike Johnson Begins Role With Significant Pro-Life Funding Battle
The newly minted leader faces the challenge of forging GOP unity on the life issue.
