"In a piece today on the homepage, I detail the Democratic efforts to extend small-business loans to Planned Parenthood affiliates, and I argue that an easier way to solve the ongoing fight over abortion funding is simply to render all abortion providers ineligible for government funding.

"That is, perhaps, too tall of an order for this Congress. But Georgia senator Kelly Loeffler has a bill that would do something similar, at least in the context of coronavirus-relief funding. Her legislation — the ‘‘Limiting Infant Fatality and Empowering Nonprofit Organization Workforces,’’ or the LIFE NOW Act — would explicitly forbid any “entity, including an affiliate, subsidiary, successor, or clinic thereof, that provides abortions” from receiving the forgivable loans created to help mitigate the effects of the coronavirus recession."

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