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GOP unveils nationwide abortion ban after 15 weeks

mattbbpl · 2022-09-13 06:53:11

In a shocking move that absolutely no one saw coming, Lindsey Graham has introduced a bill banning abortion nationwide after 15 weeks.Upending the political debate, Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham introduced a nationwide abortion ban Tuesday, sending shockwaves through both parties and igniting fresh debate on a fraught issue weeks before the midterm elections that will determine control of Congress.Graham’s own Republican Party leaders did not immediately embrace his abortion ban bill, which would prohibit the procedure after 15 weeks of pregnancy with rare exceptions, and has almost no chance of becoming law in the Democratic-held Congress. Democrats torched it as an alarming signal of where “MAGA” Republicans are headed if they win control of the House and Senate in November.“America’s got to make some decisions,” Graham said at a news conference at the Capitol.The South Carolina Republican said that rather than shying away from the Supreme Court’s ruling this summer overturning Roe v. Wade’s nearly 50-year right to abortion access, Republicans are preparing to fight to make a nationwide abortion ban federal law.“Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, we’re going nowhere,” the senator said while flanked by female advocates from the anti-abortion movement. “We welcome the debate. We welcome the vote in the United States Senate as to what America should look like in 2022.”LinkWho here supports such a ban?Update:Mike Pence comes out in support of such a ban and says the next GOP president will support it as well.Former Vice President Mike Pence said in a new interview that the next Republican elected to the Oval Office, “whoever that may be,” will support a national abortion ban.“I welcome any and all efforts to advance the cause of life in state capitals or in the nation’s capital,” Pence said in an interview with RealClearPolitics published Wednesday. “And I have every confidence that the next Republican president, whoever that may be, will stand for the right to life.”“It is imperative that Republicans and conservatives resolve, here and now, that we will not shrink from the fight,” added Pence, who is seen as a potential 2024 presidential candidate and has been among the GOP’s most outspoken advocates for anti-abortion policies.At a South Carolina speech in July, he said that the country has the opportunity to become a “more perfect union” with the overturning of Roe v. Wade.“Standing here in the first days of post-Roe America, we must resolve that we will not rest, we will not relent, until the sanctity of life is restored to the center of American law in every state in the nation,” he added in that speech.Link

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PurpleMan5000

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#51 PurpleMan5000

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I think Lindsay Graham still has presidential delusions and believes he can do well in a republican primary if he is the only candidate actually pushing for a national abortion ban.

Well, it is what republicans actually want, regardless of their bullshitting about "states rights". Lindsay isn't going to be president though. Not no way, not no how.

I think the voting base is split somewhere around 60/40 on that one. Enough voting republicans want abortion outlawed to prevent anyone remotely pro-choice from coming out of a primary, but if you put it to a statewide vote like Kansas recently did, it's a losing issue.

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#52 Serraph105

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@PurpleMan5000: I'm of the opinion that Republican voters will be more than happy to get behind a national ban on abortion the moment there appears to be wide spread support among Republican politicians in congress

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