Could a National Abortion Ban Save Republicans?

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🗓️ 15 September 2022

⏱️ 22 minutes

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With the midterm elections a few weeks away, Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, forwarded a plan to save his party from the growing backlash over abortion. But the proposal — a federal ban on almost all terminations after 15 weeks — has served mostly to expose the division among Republicans about the issue. Guest: Lisa Lerer, a national political correspondent for The New York Times.

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0:00.0	From New York Times, I'm Michael Barrow. This is a daily.
0:10.0	Today.
0:13.0	With the midterm elections just a few weeks away,
0:16.0	a Republican senator has proposed a plan
0:19.0	to save his party from the growing voter backlash over abortion.
0:25.0	I spoke with Mike Holling, Lisa Lair,
0:27.0	about why that plan has backfired.
0:34.0	It's Thursday, September 15th.
0:43.0	Lisa, I wonder if you can describe this bill that Senator Lindsey Graham has just introduced.
0:49.0	So you have Senator Lindsey Graham.
0:51.0	He's the senior senator from South Carolina,
0:53.0	Confident for a while, a former president Trump, and he comes out.
0:58.0	Thank you all.
0:59.0	In this press conference that his team has widely advertised the night before with this bill.
1:05.0	I think we should have a law at the federal level that would say after 15 weeks,
1:12.0	no abortion on demand.
1:14.0	A 15 week abortion ban.
1:16.0	So that means abortion would be allowed up until 15 weeks,
1:20.0	which is just past the first trimester.
1:23.0	There would be exceptions for rape, incest, for the physical health of the mother.
1:26.0	We have the ability in Washington to speak on this issue.
1:29.0	If we choose, I have chosen to speak.
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