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Graham breaks with Trump on national abortion ban
The Hill ^ | 04/08/2024 | ALEXANDER BOLTON

Posted on 04/08/2024 8:24:21 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) broke with former President Trump on Monday over Trump’s decision to back away from endorsing a national 15-week abortion ban, declaring that leaving the issue entirely to the states “runs contrary to an American consensus that would limit late-term abortions.”

“I respectfully disagree with President Trump’s statement that abortion is a states’ rights issue,” he said in a statement responding to Trump.

Trump on Monday reversed course on his plan to support a 15-week or 16-week national abortion ban amid pushback from top Republicans, who warned it would put the issue of abortion rights at the forefront of the 2024 campaign and hurt their chances to taking back the White House and the Senate majority.

Graham, however, argued that “the pro-life movement has always been about the wellbeing of the unborn child — not geography.”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Indiana; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: abortion; ban; graham; indiana; lindseygraham; mikepence; southcarolina; trump
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To: ChicagoConservative27

He would be much happier an so would we if he joined ru pauls show


101 posted on 04/08/2024 11:08:13 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: willk

Trump should shut up as well on this issue.


102 posted on 04/08/2024 11:17:11 AM PDT by napscoordinator (DeSantis is a beast! Florida is the freest state in the country! )
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To: Lazamataz

100% correct


103 posted on 04/08/2024 1:53:13 PM PDT by Manuel OKelley
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The federalizing of abortion was one of the left’s greatest strategic victories. How many radical leftists Reps. and Senators defeated conservatives on this issue alone, over the years? Trump is right to leave it to the states, now that his SC has returned the issue to them.

Trump did what needed to be done. He took the handcuffs off of pro-lifers. Now it’s up to them to continue the fight at the state level, not take a step backwards. Re-federalizing abortion will backfire on the pro-life movement if it takes place. It would ultimately hurt the country and hurt their cause.


104 posted on 04/08/2024 2:44:14 PM PDT by mbrfl
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Lindsey Graham must not have read the Constitution. There is nothing in the Constitution that specifically gives any health authority to the Federal Government. Actually, ...

Amendment X (1791)
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.


105 posted on 04/08/2024 3:05:42 PM PDT by StrictConstructionist
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