Even if the difference between Democrats and Republicans was moderate some time ago ... we are now witnessing a fundamental conflict of an ideological nature.
Because a majority of justices sitting on the highest court in the land are anti-abortion, the future of Roe v. Wade, which decriminalized abortion in 1973, is in jeopardy.
According to the Guttmacher Institute, a pro-choice organization, U.S. state governments have passed over 300 laws restricting access to abortion over the past four years.
For months now, Boehner has faced guerrilla forces from the Republican Party’s right wing, which opposed the compromises the speaker had struck with the Democrats.