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McConnell says national abortion ban ‘possible’
The hill ^ | 05/07/2022 | Lexi Lonas

Posted on 05/07/2022 5:39:41 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said in an interview with USA Today a national abortion ban is “possible” if Roe v. Wade gets overturned this summer.

“If the leaked opinion became the final opinion, legislative bodies — not only at the state level but at the federal level — certainly could legislate in that area,” McConnell told USA Today when asked if a national abortion ban is “worthy of debate.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: abortion; babykillers; ban; cocainemitch; gopestablishment; mcconnell; national; postturtle; rino; rinos; uniparty; yertle
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To: nuconvert
Why does he fall for this and say exactly what the dems want him to say?

He'd rather eat a mile of sheetrock than give up his "fame" and "power."

Truly disgusting, and damned near treasonous, the foul piece of dung.

41 posted on 05/07/2022 7:30:08 PM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: Blood of Tyrants

That’s not what the draft opinion says. It just says that it’s not a constitutional right.


42 posted on 05/07/2022 7:48:06 PM PDT by TexasGurl24
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To: Jim Noble

If that happened, couldn’t it still be challenged and wind up in the SC anyway?


43 posted on 05/07/2022 7:50:46 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: JonPreston

That’s why the turtle ran his mouth.


44 posted on 05/07/2022 7:51:29 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: Blood of Tyrants
Tenth Ammendment - "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people”

So does this have any meaning anymore?

45 posted on 05/07/2022 7:53:35 PM PDT by D Rider ( )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Deep State is threatening wayward Dems.

Keep voting for our candidates or there goes your access to abortion.

I hate to break it to pro-choicers, but if Deep State isn’t stopped, a lack of access to legal abortion will be the least of their problems.


46 posted on 05/07/2022 7:59:19 PM PDT by mewzilla (We need to repeal RCV wherever it's in use and go back to dumb voting machines.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
"Must be an election coming up for him to say that."

He's had plenty of other opportunities over the years. Why now?

47 posted on 05/07/2022 8:39:04 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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To: D Rider

Not to Congress. They pretty much destroyed by the deliberate misinterpretation of the interstate commerce clause.


48 posted on 05/07/2022 8:39:51 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Inside every liberal is a blood-thirsty fascist yearning to be free of current societal constraints.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
He is using the same talking points as the dems: that the GOP wants to ban abortion nationwide at the federal level when they certainly lack the votes, the will and the constitutional authority to do that. It will only serve to energize the left and rouse soccer moms to take the bait the dems have been serving up.

He's trying to finish the job he started by helping to have the GOP yield all the redistricting fights to democrats by "incompetence": keep the dems competetive so if needed they can stop Trump and probably DeSantis if it comes to it in 2024.

49 posted on 05/07/2022 8:46:55 PM PDT by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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To: Blood of Tyrants
That’s what Scalia said.

Not really, no. Alito said it was up to the people and their elected representatives. That could include state, local, or federal.

50 posted on 05/08/2022 3:50:55 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: MinorityRepublican
You see states make their own laws when it come to alcohol.

You mean like setting minimum drinking ages?

51 posted on 05/08/2022 4:16:14 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: chopperk
The SCOTUS want’s to turn the current ruling over to the States where it should be.

In Missouri we have a state legislator submitting a bill making it a crime for a Missouri resident to travel to another state to get an abortion. How long will states that ban abortion sit still as their residents drive across the border and get an abortion before they insist on a national solution, which the draft of the decision makes perfectly legal?

52 posted on 05/08/2022 6:18:16 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: DoodleDawg

You can’t make a law like that, any more than you can make it a crime to go to another state to undergo heart surgery or dental work. A law like that wouldn’t stand up.


53 posted on 05/08/2022 11:16:25 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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