Republicans in the U.S. Senate voted to trick the American people Tuesday.
The Senate voted on a motion to table an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act. Theoretically, if the vote had passed, Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, would have then proposed her own amendment dealing with pro-life policy, but the vote was never going to pass. Everyone knew that. Everyone was in on the game.
Why go through such a vote? Republican senators want you to think they are fighting for life even though most of them aren’t.
It’s worse than that; a few of them are actively fighting against the cause of life.
The context for this is the Biden administration’s illegal abortion policy change implemented for the armed forces in the wake of the Dobbs v. Jackson decision, which overturned the abortion precedent Roe v. Wade. In response to the administration, Sen. Tommy…
