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Tim Scott says he would ‘definitely’ support 20-week abortion ban
The Hill ^ | 04/13/2023 | JULIA MANCHESTER

Posted on 04/13/2023 9:20:32 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Tim Scott (R-S.C.), who is inching closer to a presidential bid, said on Thursday that he would support a 20 week ban on abortion.

“I think states have to solve that problem on their own,” Scott said in an interview with WMUR in New Hampshire. “The big problem that we see today is that Democrats want to make this a federal issue of having abortions into the third trimester. That is something that puts us in the company of China and North Korea. We cannot go there so we have to have a federal limit on how far we can go and that is something we have to discuss.”

When asked whether he would sign a 20 week ban on the procedure into law if it reached his desk, Scott said “definitely.”

Scott’s comments come after he danced around whether he would support a federal ban on abortion during an interview with CBS News in Iowa, while calling himself “100 percent pro-life without a question.”

“I do believe we should have a robust conversation about what’s happening on a very important topic,” he told the network.

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KEYWORDS: abortion; ban; definitely; scott
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You talking to Linda Graham again Tim??
1 posted on 04/13/2023 9:20:32 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Your poll numbers are less than 1% Tim


2 posted on 04/13/2023 9:24:16 AM PDT by no-to-illegals ( The enemy has US surrounded. May God have mercy on them.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I believe the Court’s position would hold a national abortion ban much as they held a national abortion legalization. Neither one is the federal government’s business.


3 posted on 04/13/2023 9:25:01 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative.)
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To: no-to-illegals
Your poll numbers are less than 1% Tim

So were Biden's in 2007. It wound up working out for him.
4 posted on 04/13/2023 9:30:26 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("If you can’t say something nice . . . say the Rosary." [Red Badger])
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I think we need to now shift into talking about how we’re going to help support these troubled mothers and their unborn/ recently born children.

We waste $billions every year. We can stop wasting that and spend some to care for these mothers and their children.


5 posted on 04/13/2023 9:30:47 AM PDT by Nathan _in_Arkansas (Hoist the black flag and begin slitting throats. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

That’s the position of Tim’s senate pals, Lisa Murkowski and Mitt Romney.


6 posted on 04/13/2023 9:32:04 AM PDT by BrexitBen
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Didn’t Timmy just endorse Lisa Murkowski?


7 posted on 04/13/2023 9:32:06 AM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (⭐⭐To the Left, The Truth is Right Wing Violence⭐⭐)
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To: Nathan _in_Arkansas

The FBI arrests people and Congress attacks people who do that.


8 posted on 04/13/2023 9:36:49 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: ChicagoConservative27

This is a legal $$$ grab. Any $$$ in his prez fund not used is his. Those who owe him - donate to fund, he makes courtesy, low cost run for prez n becomes richer. Not the first to do so - won’t be the last.


9 posted on 04/13/2023 9:40:08 AM PDT by fastrock ( )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Tim Scott’s countenance might imply he is of the Christian faith.

His divided mind speaks compromise all day long, just as the RINO pals he keeps in his circle.

Sadly, Trey Gowdy has fully supported Scott’s every word, so assumptions are made that intelligent men are not right thinking men, not on that basis alone.


10 posted on 04/13/2023 9:43:55 AM PDT by RitaOK (WE ARE OCCUPIED. imo.... UNTIL WE FIGHT.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

People are so stupid. Republican senators are top of the list

It’s a human at the time of conception

20 weeks? What a stupid idea


11 posted on 04/13/2023 9:47:17 AM PDT by stanne
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To: hinckley buzzard

Libertarians often keep that view, I think. However, a once Christian national government would defend “innocent blood” without question, as the embodiment of innocent human life, a gift of God. Those who would take it would have been drawn and quartered.

The demise of nations begin with, first, a disregard for God and for methodically replacing Him with the mind of men who pull their beards over ways to better please the desires of man.

We reap America’s free fall, today, I believe.


12 posted on 04/13/2023 9:58:14 AM PDT by RitaOK (WE ARE OCCUPIED. imo.... UNTIL WE FIGHT.)
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To: stanne

What do you think of Democratic senators who think there should be no restrictions at all on abortion? Certainly they must be more stupid then Republican senators.


13 posted on 04/13/2023 10:06:00 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Dilbert San Diego

What do I think of any of them. They’re killing babies. People

Tim Scott could come out as a senator and say abortion is killing babies as mich as it has been since the early 1970s when it was legalized and before. We do not condone it as a nation as has now been set forth by the Supreme Court after 50 years of a fake law.

You think republicans are better than democrats because they are for pretending that it’s better to kill a person before 20 weeks of gestation?

What?


14 posted on 04/13/2023 10:13:13 AM PDT by stanne
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"I believe the Court’s position would hold a national abortion ban much as they held a national abortion legalization. Neither one is the federal government’s business [emphasis added]."

I agree.

Post-17th Amendment ratification Tim Scott predictably doesn't seem to understand the federal government's constitutionally limited powers.

15 posted on 04/13/2023 10:20:46 AM PDT by Amendment10
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To: ChicagoConservative27

big deal you weak SOB. Babies can practically live on their own at that stage. Killing babies at ANY stage is a wicked sin and those who are okay with it or advocate for it work directly for satan and will spend eternity in HELL.


16 posted on 04/13/2023 10:24:03 AM PDT by spacejunkie2001
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To: stanne

I think Tim Scott is trying to navigate a difficult politcal environment. There is very little political support for an absolute ban on abortion. So the next best thing is to try to gain support for some limits on abortion.

Yes I think Republicans who want to work for limits on abortion are better than Democrats who want no limits.


17 posted on 04/13/2023 10:24:51 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: ChicagoConservative27

It’s a State issue now, you doofus!


18 posted on 04/13/2023 10:25:32 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Nathan _in_Arkansas

I’m not sure what you’re talking about.

There are public assistance programs already for poor mothers including poor single mothers.


19 posted on 04/13/2023 10:32:58 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Dilbert San Diego

“I think Tim Scott is trying to navigate a difficult politcal environment. There is very little political support for an absolute ban on abortion. So the next best thing is to try to gain support for some limits on abortion.

Yes I think Republicans who want to work for limits on abortion are better than Democrats who want no limits.”

That’s as mealy mouthed lukewarm as what got us here with wimps in charge allowing Joe Biden to be president.

We are a nation under God or were a nation that rules over legalized killing of offspring by their parents

Not both

Can’t have both


20 posted on 04/13/2023 10:38:58 AM PDT by stanne
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