Fox News’ Shannon Bream pressured Senator Lindsey Graham over her proposed abortion bill, which would ban 15-week abortions nationally, with her “pivot” from leaving abortion restrictions up to the states.
Bream showed a clip on “Fox News Sunday” of the Republican senator from South Carolina in June when he said abortion should be a matter of states’ rights.
“Here’s what President Biden said: ‘When a lawmaker exploits the rights of states to impose nationwide sanctions, it becomes clear that they have nothing to do with the Constitution,’ she said. “You have to explain the axis.”
Graham hit back at BREEAM’s allegation of flip-flopping, saying “I’m not inconsistent,” and noting that he proposed a bill in 2020 that banned abortion at 20 weeks.
“To suggest that I am new to the game opposing abortion of late is ridiculous,” he insisted, addressing his shift from defending abortion as a nationwide constitutional matter to states. Diffidence.
Graham’s comments follow her call for a nationwide abortion ban, which would allow states to pass more restrictive legislation, and Roe v. The opposite of Wade signaled a switch after the decision was sent to the states.
His proposed bill stunned his colleagues an unnamed source Told Politico that “Graham’s stunt is a godsend and helps remind us voters that Republicans want to ban abortion everywhere.” BREEAM noted the pushback that insisted the decision would affect the upcoming 2022 mid-term elections.
“I am pro-life, even in an election year,” the senator replied, “I reject those who suggest that being pro-life is losing politics.
In June, before the Supreme Court overturned Row, Graham said, “There is nothing in the Constitution that makes the right to abortion as a constitutional principle.”
“If you know anything about me, Shannon, for 20 years, I’ve been supporting federal legislation banning late-term abortions,” Graham replied, pointing to the Dobbs v. Jackson decision. that “elected officials can make decisions, state or federal.”
