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Republicans pull a classic bait-and-switch with new abortion bill – The Washington Post by Dana Milbank

Just two weeks into the new Congress, [Republicans] voted Tuesday afternoon to bring to the House floor their current priority: a bill banning abortions after 20 weeks. The legislation, which doesn’t even grant exceptions to victims of rape unless they report it to police, was scheduled to be taken up Thursday — on the 42nd anniversary of Roe v. Wade and coinciding with the annual March for Life.

It was a classic bait-and-switch.

Abortion got barely a mention in last year’s campaign, which led to unified Republican control of Congress. Voters in exit polls said their top priorities were the economy (45 percent), health care (25 percent), immigration (14 percent) and foreign policy (13 percent) — not surprising, given that these are the issues Republicans talked about. A Gallup poll after the election found that fewer than 0.5 percent of Americans think abortion should be the top issue, placing it behind at least 33 other issues.

But instead of doing what voters wanted, House Republicans are making one of their first orders of business a revival of the culture wars. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), the new Senate majority leader, has promised to take up the bill, too.

Republicans pull a classic bait-and-switch with new abortion bill – The Washington Post