These days, successful women choose some variation on one sequence of events: They enter an influential position in the workforce and then use most of their time figuring out how to maximize time with their children. It is all part of the GOP pro-family master plan.

The culmination of this pattern comes as a House resolution for proxy voting inches closer to passage. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) recently led a discharge petition to force a vote on Rep. Brittany Pettersen’s (D-CO) resolution to permit parental voting by proxy, independent of some Republican members’ resistance. Both women have faced in-person voting difficulties after giving birth.