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Senator Lindsay Graham's new proposed abortion bill isn't exactly going over very well.

It's her Politico Playbook daily briefing.

After the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade back in June, most Republicans stuck to a simple message.

The decision merely sent the issue back to the states.

It was not a prelude to any national ban on abortion.

Senator Lindsey Graham tossed all that out the window on Tuesday, dropping a bill that would

implement a nationwide ban on abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy

while allowing states to pass more restrictive laws.

The immediate effect was to put fellow Republicans who had already been on their heels over

Rose reversal straight onto their butts.

At a Capitol Hill news conference on Tuesday, Graham promoted his bill as good policy and good politics,

noting that it would align U.S. abortion law with the rest of the industrialized world,

while giving GOP office holders and candidates a proposal to rally around.

Instead, the opposite happened.

The GOP scattered in response, while Democrats all over the country began salivating.

One even told Playbook last night, Graham's stunt is a godsend and helps us remind voters,

Republicans want to ban abortion everywhere.

On a day when President Joe Biden should have been on the defensive after the monthly

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