Abortion should be free and available to all. At the same time, we should end social and economic forces that force the marginalized to make more difficult family planning choices, including ending poverty, ending racialization, and improving baseline education.

Abortion in the US is an electoral wedge issue. It is fought over by both parties mostly as a tool for getting elected, and they might think about making changes after that. Some politicians are true believers on this issue, but as a whole they use it cynically as a political football. So, we can recognize that, for example, Roe was overturned, and then Dems did nothing except campaign on it and codify some state-level protections. The immediate outrage was coopted back into the Democratic Party where it died. Now there is just fear and disappointment.

So, legislation being “bipartisan” doesn’t really mean very much when it’s just a couple names on introduced legislation. The topic is essentially dead at the federal level or is more likely to move right, like defunding healthcare subsidies or angling for a federal ban. The Democratic Party has already been going to bat for anti-abortion politicians in its own party. Expect them to cave, especially if they actually win elections and get a majority in Congress and the presidency in 4 years.