{"id":583400,"date":"2021-07-05T19:50:13","date_gmt":"2021-07-05T23:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=583400"},"modified":"2021-07-05T19:50:20","modified_gmt":"2021-07-05T23:50:20","slug":"tom-cotton-believes-america-would-be-better-off-without-roe-v-wade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tom-cotton-believes-america-would-be-better-off-without-roe-v-wade\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Cotton Believes America Would Be Better Off Without Roe v. Wade"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/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%2Ftom-cotton-believes-america-would-be-better-off-without-roe-v-wade%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=583400&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--><ul>\n<li><strong>Overturning Roe v. Wade may be \u201cthe best way\u201d for America to handle the divisive issue of abortion, Arkansas Republican Sen. Tom Cotton said during an interview with the Daily Caller News Foundation\u2019s Mary Margaret Olohan.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>\u201cWithout Roe v. Wade, once again states would have the power to take their own course,\u201d the senator said. \u201cI suspect California and New York might have more liberal abortion laws in a state like mine, in Arkansas or state like Iowa. That\u2019s how our country operated until 1973.\u201d<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>\u201cI think it can do just fine once again and, in fact, I think that\u2019s probably the better course of action on the matter,\u201d he said.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>SIOUX CENTER, Iowa \u2014 Sen. Tom Cotton said Tuesday that overturning Roe v. Wade may be \u201cthe best way\u201d for Americans to handle the divisive issue of abortion.<\/p>\n<p>The Arkansas Republican weighed in on a <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/17\/supreme-court-abortion-case-mississippi-roe-wade-dobbs-jackson-womens-health\/\">major abortion case<\/a> that the Supreme Court court will take up in October \u2014 one that advocates on both sides of the aisle say could directly challenge Roe v. Wade. This will be the first major abortion case in which all three of former President Donald Trump\u2019s Supreme Court justice appointees participate, including Justice Amy Coney Barrett, who gained a seat on the court after a <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/09\/26\/amy-coney-barrett-supreme-court-attacks-democrats-media\/\">contentious confirmation<\/a>&nbsp;process in October.<\/p>\n<p>Cotton told the Daily Caller News Foundation\u2019s Mary Margaret Olohan that the \u201claw at issue in Mississippi should be upheld\u201d and that he was \u201cdisappointed\u201d that it was struck down to begin with. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/25\/americans-abortion-baby-poll-late-term\/\">(RELATED: Most Americans Want Abortion Restrictions After Unborn Baby Reaches 12 Weeks: POLL)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cStates like Mississippi, states like mine, have the power under our constitutional system to adopt reasonable regulations on a practice like abortion to protect the unborn life of the baby, to protect the health of the mother as well,\u201d Cotton said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor far too long, the Supreme Court has had its own special abortion jurisprudence, that really doesn\u2019t apply in any other field of law, treating this one practice as somehow constitutionally sacrosanct, \u201d Cotton said, adding that it is \u201chigh time for the Supreme Court to revisit this issue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>An Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/only-on-ap-us-supreme-court-abortion-religion-health-2c569aa7934233af8e00bef4520a8fa8\">poll released June 24 found<\/a>&nbsp;that while 61% of Americans say abortion should be legal in most or all circumstances during the first trimester (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hopkinsmedicine.org\/health\/wellness-and-prevention\/the-first-trimester\">ends at 12 weeks<\/a>), 65% of Americans said abortion should almost always be illegal in the second trimester (ends at 28 weeks) and 80% said abortion should almost always be illegal in the third trimester (ends around 40 weeks).<\/p>\n<p>Cotton said that he not only thinks Americans can handle Roe v. Wade being overturned, he also believes that overturning the divisive Supreme Court case would be \u201c<span>the best way for us to handle some of these very sensitive issues.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/02\/culture-wars-tom-cotton-republicans-critical-race-theory\/\">(RELATED: <\/a><\/strong><\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/02\/culture-wars-tom-cotton-republicans-critical-race-theory\/\">EXCLUSIVE: The Left Started The Culture Wars, Tom Cotton Says, And \u2018Normal Americans Expect Us To Stand Up And Fight Back\u2019)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cUntil 1973 states were making changes to their abortion laws, some states were liberalizing their laws, some states weren\u2019t,\u201d he said. \u201cWithout Roe v. Wade, once again states would have the power to take their own course. I suspect California and New York might have more liberal abortion laws in a state like mine, in Arkansas or state like Iowa. That\u2019s how our country operated until 1973. I think it can do just fine once again and, in fact, I think that\u2019s probably the better course of action on the matter.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Addressing how far pro-abortion advocates and lawmakers would go to protect Roe v. Wade, Cotton pointed to the confirmation hearings of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/07\/05\/brett-kavanaugh-liberal-groups-scotus-supreme-court-abortion\/\">(RELATED: Liberal Groups Warned That Kavanaugh Would Push SCOTUS Dramatically To The Right. Their Fears Haven\u2019t Been Met)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7230264\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"37\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7230264\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-7230264 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1026663202-scaled-1.jpg\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1026663202-scaled-1.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1026663202-180x120.jpg 180w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1026663202-620x414-1.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1026663202-768x513-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1026663202-1536x1025-1.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1026663202-2048x1366-1.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7230264\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh arrives for testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee during his Supreme Court confirmation hearing in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill September 4, 2018 in Washington, DC. Kavanaugh was nominated by President Donald Trump to fill the vacancy on the court left by retiring Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy. (Chip Somodevilla\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>\u201cThere the stakes were a little bit lower the year prior with Neil Gorsuch because he was replacing Justice Scalia, but with Brett Kavanaugh replacing Justice Kennedy (who had been a member of the majority in Planned Parenthood v. Casey) the abortion lobby <\/span><span>and the abortion industry pulled out all the stops,\u201d Cotton said.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWhat happened to Brett Kavanaugh was a disgrace,\u201d he continued. \u201cHe was attacked and he was smeared without evidence, in fact, contrary to what little evidence there was. So I think you saw just how far they will go, it\u2019s an example of how radical and extreme Democrats have become.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Cotton said Democrats have long departed from the stance that abortion <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2019\/10\/20\/clintons-tulsi-gabbard-abortion\/\">should be rare<\/a>. (<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2019\/09\/04\/christine-ford-abortion-kavanaugh\/\">RELATED: <\/a><\/strong><\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2019\/09\/04\/christine-ford-abortion-kavanaugh\/\">Video Shows Anti-Kavanaugh Lawyer Saying Christine Blasey Ford Wanted \u2018Asterisk\u2019 By Justice\u2019s Name)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cBill Clinton used to say when he was running for president, when he was president, that abortion should be safe, legal, and rare,\u201d Cotton said. \u201cI mean, how many Democrats today would say that abortion should be rare? They\u2019re more likely to defend infanticide like Ralph Northam, the governor of Virginia, once did on air, than they are to say that abortion should be rare.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Tom Cotton Describes A Post Roe v  Wade USA\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/i1Z6pT5b6oI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. 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