He is trying to look tough and decisive and aggressive in solving a problem he has done nothing about for 50 days while playing golf and yucking it up with Paul McCartney.
It is a question of competing rights.
The left will argue for the rights of the mother to kill the fetus because it is inside her body.
The right will argue for the civil rights of fetus to be born. The mother's rights do not supersede the unborn baby's.
Procedural rules of the House stuff to draw the debate out to give more time for other members to talk to their colleagues.
Standard stuff, nothing unusual for a minority party. The Dems sure used every procedural trick in the book when they were the minority including some that had never been...
Being a shrewd politician doesn't make you smart.
They have staff that find the stats and tell them what to think, they don't do their own research and they don't have the facts at hand.
Once they have spewed the talking points enough they become ingrained.