The first attempt to defund Planned Parenthood using special budget procedures was through the 2017 budget measure that also carried the House GOP health-care plan. It’s on pause as House Republicans remain badly divided about their next move on health care.

Yet abortion foes are holding out hope that the effort will be resurrected after Congress returns from a two-week recess. They don’t have a contingency plan in place if Congress fails to reach a deal on rolling back and replacing the 2010 Affordable Care Act.

“We really haven’t developed a Plan B,” said Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, a group that has pushed for defunding Planned Parenthood as part of the effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.

Conservatives say they have not moved to conversations about alternative ways to defund Planned Parenthood — although they are not planning to pick a fight in the spending discussion this month. Congress must pass a bill to keep funding the government past April 28. For now, they are keeping their eyes on the Obamacare repeal efforts as their best chance of success.