With Roe Gone, Some House Republicans Back Away From National Abortion Ban

WASHINGTON — In 2021, Rep. Michelle Steel, R-Calif., whose district President Joe Biden won in 2020, co-sponsored the Life at Conception Act, a bill to recognize a fertilized egg as a person with equal protections under the 14th Amendment. It was a year before the Supreme Court would overturn Roe v. Wade. Steel was one of 166 House Republicans — then roughly three-quarters of the conference — who would ultimately sign on to the legislation, which amounted to a nationwide abortion ban. She did so

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