Why Congress Is Not Likely To Fight To Preserve Roe v Wade

Sometimes to get the full story, you have to put narratives that are from different places and times together.

For example:

1. Common Dreams has a day-old story where GOP Senator Mitch McConnell talks about a federal ban on abortion ("If the leaked opinion became the final opinion, legislative bodies—not only at the state level but at the federal level—certainly could legislate in that area...If this were the final decision, that was the point that it should be resolved one way or another in the legislative process...So yeah, it's possible.")
2. Last June (2021) PBS took a tally of Democratic Senators to see who would be for "reforming" the filibuster, a non-Constitutional mechanism that if changed correctly, could pave the way for codifying Roe v Wade.  Only 24 Senators said they were willing, and even among those support is subjective. 

So last year less than half of the Democratic Senators were willing to change self-imposed rules to better reflect the will of the people, despite the fact that the GOP Senators went out of their way to prevent Barrack Obama from nominating another judge (not to mention Ruth Bader Ginsberg held off retiring because she thought Hillary Clinton was going to win the White House back in 2016). There's no guarantee zero Democrats would vote with the GOP-led Congress should they try to make a ban on abortion federal law. 

What's more likely is that Democrats will use Roe v Wade simply as a way to scare people into voting for them, because doing nothing is better than doing something harmful.