{"id":1653320,"date":"2022-09-22T12:05:11","date_gmt":"2022-09-22T16:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1653320"},"modified":"2022-09-22T12:05:27","modified_gmt":"2022-09-22T16:05:27","slug":"graham-why-i-will-fight-for-my-national-15-week-abortion-ban-despite-gop-leaderships-pushback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/graham-why-i-will-fight-for-my-national-15-week-abortion-ban-despite-gop-leaderships-pushback\/","title":{"rendered":"Graham: Why I will fight for my national 15-week abortion ban, despite GOP leadership\u2019s pushback"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgraham-why-i-will-fight-for-my-national-15-week-abortion-ban-despite-gop-leaderships-pushback%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1653320&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><strong>Neil W. McCabe, National Political Correspondent <br \/>UPDATED 11:22 AM PT \u2013Thursday, September 22, 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>WASHINGTON <\/strong>The senior senator from South Carolina defended his bill that would ban all abortions after weeks of pregnancy in an exclusive sit-down interview with OAN\u2019s Washington Bureau Chief John Hines, even as Republican leaders are begging him to pull the bill.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Republicans will push back and not run for the hills, we\u2019ll do just fine,\u201d said Sen. Lindsay O. Graham (R.-S.C.), whom Sept. 13 filed his \u201cProtecting Pain-Capable Unborn Children from Late-Term Abortions Act.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In May, Senate Minority Leader A. Mitchell \u201cMitch\u201d McConnell (R.-Ky.) told USAToday that if the Supreme Court used its Dobbs v. Jackson Women\u2019s Health Organization ruling to overturn the Roe v. Wade decision that created a federal right to abortion, it was possible that Republicans would propose a national abortion ban.<\/p>\n<p>After the justices\u2019 June 24 Dobbs decision reversed Roe, McConnell has been more circumspect. He and his leadership team, which includes Minority Whip John R. Thune (R.-S.D.) and Assistant Minority Leader John Cornyn (R.-Texas), have repeatedly dismissed talk of a national ban, preferring to allow the states to work out their own rules.<\/p>\n<p>Graham said he could not stand back and do nothing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat world do you wanna live in? Do you want to be like China and North Korea in the United States?\u201d he asked. \u201cOr do you wanna be in the civilized world?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Republicans can do the right thing and win, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope Republicans will look the camera in the eye and say: \u2018If I go to Washington, I will never vote to use your taxpayer dollars to allow baby to be aborted up to the moment of birth. That\u2019s not who we are as a nation\u2013that\u2019s out of sync with the civilized world\u2013hold them accountable for the most extreme position on abortion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Graham said it if the American people understood the reality of the Democrats\u2019 abortion agenda, they would be shocked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the Democratic Party has made a serious mistake,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe reason they\u2019re coming after me is \u2018cuz I\u2019m coming after them,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank God for OAN and other outlets, who allow me to talk,\u201d the retired Air Force Reserve colonel said. \u201cIn the liberal media world, abortion is something that Republicans should run away from and being pro-life is a political loser in my world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Graham said he pegged the limit at 15 weeks because that is the point children in the womb become pain capable, and it is the time limit imposed in most European nations that allow abortion.<\/p>\n<p>Current American abortion restrictions are inhumane, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are no rights attached to this child. I find that to be extreme, to be cruel,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The senator said it is accepted medical practice to administer anesthesia whenever doctors operate on a baby in the womb after 15 weeks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy would you provide anesthesia to an unborn child? If they can\u2019t feel pain, it is a standard medical practice at 15 weeks to provide anesthesia to the unborn child if\u00a0you\u2019re trying to repair some damage to save its life,\u201d the senator said.<\/p>\n<p>What about what the unborn child experiences when it is aborted, he said. \u201cCan you imagine what it\u2019s like for that child to be dismembered?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat am I doing?\u201d he asked. \u201cAt 15 weeks, I\u2019m drawing a line nationally\u2013you can do anything below 15 weeks at the state level, but 47 of 50 European nations outlaw or stop abortion on demand at 14 weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Graham said his bill is actually less stringent than the European standard.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m one week beyond them with exceptions, for rape and incest and life of the mother,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>It is the Democrats who are being extreme by opposing any time limit, the senator said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTaxpayer-funded abortion, no restrictions up until the moment of birth,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat they don\u2019t want the public to know is that their abortion position is the most extreme in history,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s the Democratic party trying to impose on the nation an abortion standard like China and North Korea.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ten Senate Democrats, led by Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D.-N.Y.) and Sen. Patricia L. Murray (D.-Wash.), the chairwoman of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, held a Sept. 15 press conference to blast the Graham bill.<\/p>\n<p>Schumer said Americans support abortion rights.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRepublicans are twisting themselves into pretzels to explain their position on abortion because they know the American people overwhelmingly side with a woman\u2019s right to choose,\u201d Schumer said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Republican abortion ban introduced this week shows the stark contrast between Democrats who are focused on creating jobs, lowering costs, and bringing our country together, and MAGA Republicans who are pushing a radical, extremist agenda,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSeveral months ago, we had a vote on the floor of the United States Senate authored by Senator Schumer that would create a national policy,\u201d he said. \u201cIt would preempt every law at the state level, allowing abortion on demand funded by the taxpayer up to the moment of birth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Democrats are using his abortion bill to distract voters from the damage they have done to the country and its reputation, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope they keep talking about this,\u201d Graham said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cListen, crime and inflation are issues that are very important, a broken border, the withdrawal from Afghanistan, but the Democrats believe they\u2019re gonna win this election on the abortion issue,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo my Republican colleagues, if you do not tell the public about the extreme views of the Democrats, Schumer and others, you\u2019re missing an opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neil W. 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