Guest post by Janet Morana
Within the first 100 hours of the first session of the 120th Congress in January 2027, Democrats in the House of Representatives hope to eliminate all gestational limits on abortion on the national level.
They can only do that if they win enough seats to dominate the chamber.
They can only win a majority of seats if disillusioned Republican voters stay home.
If you are a Republican voter, disillusioned or otherwise, please don’t stay home.
A memorandum submitted by the Cost of Living Healthcare Working Group to House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries recommends prioritizing two abortion-related measures: the Women’s Health Protection Act and the Equal Access to Abortion Coverage in Health Insurance Act, commonly known as the EACH Act.
The Women’s Health Protection Act would establish federal protections for abortion and repeal protections for the unborn in numerous states.
The EACH Act addresses a different question: Who pays for abortion?
The legislation seeks to expand abortion coverage through public health insurance programs and prohibit restrictions on abortion coverage in private insurance. It would also challenge longstanding federal funding restrictions, including the Hyde Amendment, which generally prohibits federal Medicaid funding for abortion except in limited circumstances.
Following the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, states regained broad authority to regulate abortion. Some enacted significant restrictions, protecting most babies from abortion from conception or from the first heartbeat. Other states – every one of them blue – expanded access to abortion.
The Democrats’ aim is to replace state-level abortion protections with a sweeping national policy that eliminates all protections for unborn children, their mothers, and healthcare workers who don’t want to participate in killing children. It would basically do an end-run around Dobbs, shifting regulation of abortion back to Washington.
That is why the 2026 midterm elections carry consequences extending well beyond the personalities of individual candidates. It’s the policies that matter, not the personalities.
Polls have shown themselves to be of limited value before consequential elections. I’m sure you remember the stunned silence in Hillary Clinton headquarters when she lost to Donald Trump in 2016. But even taking the latest polls with that proverbial grain of salt, it seems that Democrat voters are much more motivated this election cycle.
Cook Political wrote in late August that “The difference between a bad Election Night and a catastrophic one for Republicans hinges on whether the currently moribund GOP base shows up to vote.” The story went on to say that Republican voters are suffering from an “enthusiasm gap.”
More recently, Pew Research found that supporters of Democratic House candidates were 17 percentage points more likely than Republican supporters to say they were extremely motivated to vote, and a Reuters/Ipsos survey concludedthat voters who supported Kamala Harris in 2024 expressed substantially more enthusiasm about voting in November than voters who supported Trump.
This is not an election any Republican voter can opt out of. Democrat majorities in the House and Senate could be catastrophic not just for the unborn, but for all Americans. All the craziness we turned down in 2024 is still part of the Democrat platform. They still support biological men in women’s sports and restrooms. They still want open borders. And their penchant for raising taxes has not gone away.
If your state has opened early voting, please consider casting your ballot now.
For more election information, go to ProLifeVote.com
Janet Morana is the executive director of Priests for Life and the co-founder of the Silent No More Awareness Campaign.
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