A year after Dobbs: Congress takes a back seat on federal abortion policy

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

46% : In the year since Dobbs, Republicans and Democrats in Congress have introduced dozens of bills that would either expand reproductive rights or restrict access to abortion, though none stand a chance of becoming law anytime soon.
46% : Republicans have introduced more than 80 bills that address abortion in some way, including a proposal from Missouri Rep. Ann Wagner that would require health care providers to give the same level of care "to preserve the life and health of the child" if an abortion were to result in a live birth.
45% : The so-called Women's Health Protection Act would bar local, state or federal governments from restricting access to abortion before viability, roughly 22 to 24 weeks gestation.
43% : Editors' Note: This report is part of a special States Newsroom series on abortion access one year after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the constitutional right to abortion.
43% : The nature of a divided Congress has led some members to turn their attention toward the annual government funding process as one way to change nationwide policy on abortion.
42% : Congress has not enacted federal legislation to either preserve reproductive rights or to restrict abortion in the year since the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization ruling nullified the landmark Roe v. Wade decision.
39% : The next nationwide policy on abortion is much more likely to be written by the same U.S. Supreme Court that wrote one year ago "the authority to regulate abortion is returned to the people and their elected representatives."
37% : When Democrats were in control of the U.S. House during the first two years of the Biden administration they removed the language that limited when the federal government could pay for abortion from all of their bills.
35% : House Republicans, however, have opted not to bring up any of the bills proposing a nationwide ban on abortion.
34% : ""There's the filibuster issue in the Senate, and things have changed in the House, so enacting protection for abortion I think is difficult right now," Katz said.
30% : On barring female troops and veterans from having access to abortion in the case of rape, incest or their lives, SBA Pro-Life America thanked Republicans on the committee "for standing up for longstanding law and for the unborn by prohibiting funding for Biden's illegal rule that would force taxpayers to pay for abortions at Veterans hospitals."

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