For the most part, though, Senate Republicans agree that in a post-Roe landscape, with states left to install their own laws, the GOP may well find itself reorienting around a national barrier to abortion.

“There’s no secret, I want to protect every single child. So if there’s an opportunity to be able to move, protect more children if we can, I’m going to do it,” said Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.). But, he added that the 60-vote threshold required to get most legislation through the Senate would present “the same impasse … There’s a big difference in voting for and actually moving legislation.”

“I’m definitely advocating: Let the states handle this,” added Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), who is up for reelection this year. “Maybe once that process has played itself out, yeah. Maybe there’s a point for federal legislation … a restriction that we probably ought to recognize nationally.”…

Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.), another GOP incumbent, added that “returning the issue to the states does not preclude the United States Congress from legislating on the subject of abortion” but said he wants see how the states address it initially.