on abortion and gay marriage. They're already planning a vote next week, but they should draft a series of additional bills that they can pitch as compromises which make the GOP stake out a position.
1) Bill that codifies the Roe v Wade viability standard and says there shall be no prohibitions against pre-viability abortions.
2) Bill that works off the Mississippi law that the Supreme Court just heard and says that there shall be no prohibitions against abortions before 15 weeks. This can be pitched as a compromise bill that would limit the damage from the SCOTUS decision.
3) Bring the linked GOP bill to the floor that would ban abortions across the country under the 6 week heartbeat standard and make the GOP vote yea or nay on it.
4) Bill that codifies the Obergefell standard that gay marriage is legal. I don't buy that contraception or interracial marriage are in any jeopardy at the moment, but Alito's opinion in this case has a much more direct path to overturning Obergefell (he, Thomas, and Roberts dissented the first time and Kavanaugh dissented on a recent LGBT case).

Obviously #3 is to make them put their opinions down on paper for a bill that won't pass. Option 1 is going to fail when it comes up in the Senate next week, but if the GOP wants to vote against the Mississippi standard then they'll have to filibuster it too. And if they don't want to overturn gay marriage, there should be no problem passing the Obergefell law without a filibuster.



[Post edited by CMUHoo at 05/06/2022 5:20PM]