On Tuesday, Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) proposed a bill that would ban abortions nationally after 15 weeks of pregnancy.
Graham did this just 3 months after the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in the Dobbs decision, ending the lie where the 1973 Court said that it magically found a right to abortion in the Constitution. The senator from South Carolina’s bill is considered the most significant attempt by a Republican to ban abortion nationally.
“I think we should have a law at the federal level that would say after 15 weeks, no abortion on demand except in cases of rape, incest and save the life of a mother. And that should be where America’s at,” Graham said during a press conference.
I would say to Graham the same thing I said to the Politically Correct Death Squad, which is the federal government has zero authority on abortion. That includes bills to ban it nationally. The Supreme Court literally just told the federal government it has no role. So then why would Graham introduce this abortion ban bill a mere two months before the all important midterm election? If Republicans do not maintain their constitutional principles, then there will be no principles in the Congress at all.
For his part, Graham indicated that he’s trying to create a rallying cry for the unborn.
“We’re trying to take a position we think will rally the country to be more sympathetic to an unborn child,” Graham said.
VISIT OUR YOUTUBE CHANNELYeah, but he didn’t need to do it less than 60 days from the most important midterm election in our history. The fate of our country will be decided in November. Either the American people, if allowed by the Democrats to have a free and fair election, will change the tide of evil coming from the Biden administration and the Democrats in Congress, or we lose the country forever because if the Democrats keep control of Congress there is nothing that will stop them from doing anything they want, constitutional limitations be damned.
In all candor, this bill would do something similar to what the Democrats’ For the People Act would have done if that disastrous bill had passed, which would have been to force all 50 states to throw out their election laws and have the federal government (Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer) write a one-size-fits-all election law for the nation.
The Supreme Court just ruled that abortion is a state issue, and as Pro-Life as I am, I think what the senator did is outrageous constitutionally.
Graham’s legislation provides exceptions for incest, rape, and to save the life of the mother in cases where those decisions are necessary. The bill also includes a 5 year prison sentence for any abortion provider who violates the ban.
The confusing thing is that Graham last month said that the Supreme Court’s ruling on the Dobbs case was correct in redefining abortion as a state matter, but then on Tuesday he said that elected officials have the power to define and regulate abortion, and that it includes in Congress.
“Abortion is not banned in America. It’s left up to elected officials in America to define the issue. States have the ability to do it at state level. And we have the ability in Washington to speak on this issue if we choose,” Graham said. “I have chosen to speak.”
Actually, senator, you do not have the ability to speak “officially” on the issue with legislation. The Court just told you that back in June.
Graham said the reason he introduced the bill is that the Democrats continue to try to codify abortion at the federal level. And the Supreme Court would have thrown anything they passed on abortion out the window.
“After [Democrats] introduced a bill to define who they are, I thought it’d be nice to introduce a bill to define who we are,” Graham said.
A snowball would have a better chance at survival in Hell than Graham’s bill in Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s (D-NY) Senate. Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said he has no intentions of eliminating the filibuster rule to pass a national ban on abortion.
There is no path for a national ban on abortion because the federal government has no power to do one. They could, but they would have to ask the states for permission to do so in the form of an amendment to the Constitution.
“We should have a law at the federal level,” Graham said during a briefing. “If we take the House and Senate, I can assure you we’ll have a vote.”
And I can assure you that the Supreme Court would smack such a law down.
And, of course, Graham’s actions allowed the Democrats to capitalize on it right away. Schumer went all in on the MAGA Republicans bit.
“Proposals like the one today send a clear message from MAGA Republicans to women across the country: your body, our choice,” Schumer said on the floor of the Senate on Tuesday.
