Abortion

A good plan here from Josh Barro though I wish Democrats would actually pass things that help people rather than just bring them up to force republicans to vote. 

After the draft decision leaked, Democrats brought a wish-list bill to the floor of both chambers that even pro-choice Republicans — even Sen. Susan Collins — were able to comfortably vote against on the grounds that it was too extreme, more expansive than Casey. Democrats need to break the agenda into pieces. As soon as possible, force Republicans to vote on matters like:

    a federal right to abortion in the first trimester,

    a federal right to abortion in cases of rape and incest,

    a federal prohibition on criminal penalties for women who seek or obtain abortions, and

    a federal prohibition on criminal penalties for non-providers who assist women in seeking or obtaining abortions.

This is not anywhere close to an exhaustive list. Unlike a catch-all bill, there are many individual ideas about protecting abortion rights that are very broadly popular — bringing them to the floor puts Republicans in the position of either voting for policies to protect abortion rights, or going home to defend votes that are actually hard to defend in election campaigns.