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...about the
Protecting Pain-Capable Unborn Children from Late-Term Abortions
Act
introduced by Senator Lindsey Graham.




















What They're Saying about the Protecting Pain-Capable Unborn
Children from Late-Term Abortions Act introduced by Senator
Lindsey Graham


Congress Should Work to End Infanticide in America By National
Review Editors

A 15-week limit stands in stark contrast to congressional
Democrats' radical federal legislation that would effectively
allow abortion in all 50 states through all nine months of
pregnancy. But some congressional Republicans are now balking at
Graham's bill. Why? They suggest they believe abortion might be
an issue exclusively for state legislatures, but their recent
votes suggest they don't really believe that.
...
For nearly a decade, Graham has been the lead sponsor of a
similar late-term abortion ban (one that established a limit at
20 weeks after conception) that has had almost unanimous support
from congressional Republicans. When the Senate voted to advance
the 20-week bill in 2015, 51 Republicans and three Democrats
supported it.
...
We are persuaded that the undoubted federal power to defend basic
civil rights under the 14th Amendment extends to this issue, as
Republicans have held in their platform for decades.

When Did the GOP Become Pro-Choice? By Jon Schweppe

The 15-week bill checks all the boxes: it is morally righteous,
constitutionally mandated, politically winning, Supreme
Court-approved, and strategically savvy. The Republican Party has
pledged to support a bill like this for the better part of four
decades. Nearly every sitting Republican member of Congress has
already co-sponsored this kind of bill in prior terms. In 2020,
53 Senators voted in favor of a 20-week ban with these same
exceptions. Nobody said anything then.
...
Abortion is going to be a major issue in this election cycle.
Dobbs happened, and there is no avoiding it. This is now a
prisoner's dilemma. Republicans have two choices: they can ignore
the issue and lose badly (which most of the establishment seems
committed to doing), or they can counter the left's attacks and
run against the left's own abortion extremism. If done even
half-heartedly, this is a draw. If done emphatically, the polling
suggests it turns into a win.
...
So, the GOP has to talk about abortion. That's the only play. The
Democrats have already committed to spending tens of millions of
dollars running on this issue in November. That's why Graham's
bill is so important; it insulates Republicans and gives them the
opportunity to support an easily defensible policy position.
Abortion restrictions after 15 weeks, especially with the
exceptions, are extraordinarily popular. Meanwhile, nearly every
single Democrat is on the record supporting a 40-week bill, a
position that is completely untenable with the American people.

If voters are choosing between 15 weeks with exceptions and 40
weeks without limits, we will win this debate easily.

Lindsey Graham's Bill is a Good Start By Erick-Woods Erickson

I understand the argument of leaving this to the states, but
Democrats have already said if they get back the Senate with a
few more seats, they will scrap the filibuster to impose abortion
on demand. The GOP needs a response.
...
Graham's position is moral, responsible, and reasonable. It gives
Republican candidates a piece of legislation to point to that
they support and shows how unreasonable Democrats actually are.
It forces Americans to decide if they're comfortable killing a
child who can feel the pain of the procedure.
...
You and I can say this should be a state issue. Democrats intend
to pre-empt every state's laws. They will make it a national
issue. We might as well accept the reality of the situation
instead of the wishful thinking of the world we want, which is
not the world in which we live.

In Defense of Lindsey Graham By Rich Lowry

The South Carolina senator proposed a national restriction on
abortion that has popular support and that could represent a
defensible consensus GOP position.
...
If the worry is that Democrats will use the Graham bill to hit
Republicans on abortion - they are already hitting Republicans on
abortion. As a POLITICO report noted, there's not much space for
the bill to show up in Democratic ads given that the spots are
already overwhelmingly about abortion.

In other words, Republicans can't escape this debate. To the
extent they try, Democrats will define them as favoring the most
radical measures. And the Graham bill shouldn't qualify. Since it
is a prohibition on abortions after 15 weeks, it would only ban
an estimated 5 percent of abortions. It has exceptions for the
life of the mother and rape and incest.
...
If Republicans truly believe that they can't defend a 15-week
ban, maybe they are right to find any excuse to try not to talk
about the issue of abortion. But that path leads, ultimately, to
implicit surrender. You can't blame Lindsey Graham for wanting
his party to do better.





































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