Lindsey Graham Introduces Nationwide Abortion Ban After Promising ‘Every State Will Decide’ for Itself
"If we take back the House and Senate, I can assure you we'll have a vote on" a federal 15-week abortion ban, Graham said Tuesday.
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Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) introduced a nationwide abortion ban for the sixth time on Tuesday. This legislation marks a coherent strategy for Republicans, where they openly admit that they want to subjugate half of America instead of quietly scrubbing abortion from their campaign sites.
Graham’s bill would ban abortion at 15 weeks—which is six to seven weeks before the fetus would be viable outside the womb. “If we take back the House and the Senate I can assure you we’ll have a vote,” he said at a press conference on Tuesday afternoon.
This was, really, more of a warning to the American people than a promise. A recent Wall Street Journal poll found that only 30 percent of voters would support a 15-week abortion ban, while 57 percent oppose. Nearly two-thirds of voters disapprove of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, and when the question of whether to revoke abortion rights was put to the people of Kansas recently rather than their Republican legislators, they overwhelmingly voted to keep abortion rights in the state constitution.
Graham, also, is a liar: Before Roe fell, like many Republicans, he assured us that he simply wanted to send the issue back to the states to decide.