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GOP Senator Lindsey Graham Tuesday introduced a nationwide abortion ban that would make it impossible to perform an abortion after the first 15 weeks.
The South
Carolina Senator said “America’s got to make decision” at a news conference at
the Capitol, The Associated Press reported.
Democrats
seized on the proposal to politicize the move ahead of the midterms, saying the
move is an alarming signal of where “MAGA” Republicans are headed if allowed
taking control of the House and Senate in November.
Graham said
Republicans will 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, according to The Associated Press.
“We welcome the debate. We welcome the vote in the United States Senate as to
what America should look like in 2022.”
“A nationwide abortion ban — that’s the
contrast between the two parties, plain and simple,” Senate Majority Leader
Chuck Schumer said in reaction to Graham’s proposals.
The GOP bill
would ban abortions nationwide after 15 weeks of pregnancy, except in cases of
rape, incest or risk to the physical health of the mother, according to The
Associated Press.
Graham’s
bill would put in place state laws leaving the states in limbo. However the
bill is facing some opposition even among top Republicans such as Senate
Republican leader Mitch McConnell.
“I think every Republican senator running this
year in these contested races has an answer as to how they feel about the
issue,” McConnell said, according to The Associated Press. He said most GOP
senators prefer having the issue dealt with by the states, rather than at the
federal level. “So I leave it up to our candidates who are quite capable of
handling this issue to determine for them what their response is.”
The U.S.
Supreme Court in June overturned the landmark Roe v Wade ruling which gave
woman unprecedented rights to abortion in a move that brought an end to
constitutional right to abortion for millions of American women. The ruling set aside the 50-year-old ruling
that legalized abortion for women.