The prospect of including abortion and transgender medicine insurance coverage in union contracts is pitting socially conservative Republicans against each other as a labor relations bill works its way through Congress.

The Faster Labor Contracts Act, which Democrats passed by a special procedural maneuver with some Republican support in the House on June 9, is fracturing the conservative coalition on multiple fronts. Many free marketeers oppose the legislation as putting a thumb on the scales for organized labor. But others oppose it on socially conservative grounds, arguing it could require employers to cover abortion and transgender medical procedures, such as cross-sex hormones, mastectomies, and vaginoplasty.

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[THURS 10AM] Faster Labor Contracts Act would silence workers’ voices and empower bureaucrats