U.S. Rep. Mike Kelly

The U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization has emboldened abortion foes to consider tactics that seemed remote possibilities only a few years ago. Among them: a federal abortion ban proposed by western Pennsylvania Congressman Mike Kelly.

The name of western Pennsylvania Congressman Mike Kelly has surfaced in a controversy regarding an abortive effort to present false slates of electors as Congress was certifying the outcome of the 2020 election. But a spokesman for Kelly said a U.S. Senator's statements about Kelly "are patently false."