I understand the political expedience of distancing the party from Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, but if you’re ideologically anti-abortion I can’t see how you’d take issue with Graham.
Because it federalizes the issue where the federal gov't has no authority.
Winning back morality has to be done on the local and state level, not in DC.
Look at how the nation changed from mostly supporting gun control laws in the 1960s to being against most new gun laws today.
We are winning the argument on abortion as well. Slowly and incrementally....the same way the left has achieved so much.
A national 15 week limit will be a campaign issue for libs who want to make it 26 weeks, then 30 weeks, etc. "Vote for me and we will expand a woman's right to choose" and those weak-minded will vote for them.
Take the issue away from the federal level and make the left fight in 50 state legislatures around the nation.
Graham's position is of course the moral one, Trump's the pragmatic. Just a few years ago, freepers would have recognized this en mass, as a few have on this thread. A significant portion of Trump's base would support a federal 15-week ban, but such a platform issue would also motivate millions to vote against him, and could quite possibly cost us the House and Senate, as well as the Presidency.