{"id":570893,"date":"2023-04-19T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-19T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/abortion-politics-roils-senate-gop\/"},"modified":"2023-04-19T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T10:00:00","slug":"abortion-politics-roils-senate-gop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/abortion-politics-roils-senate-gop\/","title":{"rendered":"#Abortion politics roils Senate GOP\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/03\/641b9c18a87055.54941171-e1681852647123.jpeg?w=900\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Abortion politics is emerging as a major headache for Republicans heading into the 2024 election and threatens to derail their chances of winning control of the Senate, as some Republicans think h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ened in last year\u2019s midterm election.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans are all over the map on what role the federal government should play in limiting abortion. \u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Some GOP lawmakers favor a national abortion ban,\u00a0while others want to leave the hot-button issue to the states entirely. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Republican senators say they expect a lot of debate within their conference over the issue in the months leading up to the next election. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis issue is not going away,\u201d said Senate Republican Whip John Thune (S.D.),\u00a0who\u00a0added there\u2019s not a consensus view \u201cat the moment\u201d within the Senate GOP conference on what role Congress should play in the national abortion debate. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s something we\u2019ll have a lot of discussions about. Clearly, we\u2019re the pro-life party and we want to take policy positions that demonstrate that and value life. Exactly what form that takes right now I think is still a matter of discussion,\u201d he said. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Republicans can\u2019t agree on the broad contours of a nationwide abortion ban \u2014 whether it should kick in at 15 weeks, six weeks or even sooner \u2014 and the question is already emerging as a litmus test for Republican presidential hopefuls. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.), who is actively exploring a White House run, offered over just several days an array of answers about what kind of federal abortion ban he would sign into law if elected president.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr2_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>During a <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a> through New Hampshire last week, Scott initially declined to say whether he would sign a 15-week abortion ban and then said he would \u201cdefinitely\u201d sign a 20-week abortion ban,\u00a0before saying that he would sign \u201cthe most conservative pro-life legislation that they can get through Congress.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Scott\u2019s evolving answers left some of Republican colleagues who favor strict abortion restrictions cringing. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think they ought to say what their conviction is,\u201d said one lawmaker who requested anonymity to comment on the\u00a02024 presidential\u00a0primary. \u201cI think primary voters want to know that somebody is pro-life and fight for it. What they don\u2019t want is wishy washy.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr3_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) signed a six-week state abortion ban into law behind closed doors and then didn\u2019t mention the accomplishment at a rally he held im<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>tely afterward at Liberty University in Virginia, making only a brief mention of abortion at the Christian university. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Former President\u00a0Trump, who rarely misses an opportunity to attack a rival, has stayed silent on Florida\u2019s six-week abortion ban and<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>has\u00a0tried to avoid the issue. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Former Vice President\u00a0Mike Pence declined to say in one recent interview what he thought about a proposal in South Carolina to make women who defy the state\u2019s abortion ban eligible for the death penalty. \u00a0A spokesperson for Pence later clarified that he does not support the idea.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr4_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Some Republicans saw the victory of Milwaukee County\u00a0Circuit\u00a0Judge Janet Protasiewicz, a Democratic-allied candidate, in the Wisconsin Supreme Court election earlier this month as an early warning of another public backlash over abortion rights coming\u00a0next year.<\/p>\n<p>Brandon Scholz, a Republican strategist based in Wisconsin, told The Hill in an interview earlier this month that the state race showed the Supreme Court\u2019s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women\u2019s Health Organization, which overturned the landmark abortion-rights case Roe v. Wade, continues to energize voters. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust like Democrats\u2019 released the abortion ruling from the Supreme Court and energized the base last summer, same exact thing here,\u201d he said, referring to Justice Samuel Alito\u2019s draft abortion opinion, which leaked in May. The Supreme Court has investigated the leak but hasn\u2019t yet found the person responsible.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr5_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Now Republicans are gearing up for an abortion debate in Washington, which Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) tried to avoid in the lead-up to last year\u2019s midterm election. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>McConnell tried to assure voters that Republicans would not try to pass a nationwide abortion ban if they won control of the Senate and House in 2022, and he threw shade on Sen. Lindsey Graham\u2019s (R-S.C.) proposal to enact a 15-week nationwide ban. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>McConnell emphasized in September that GOP leaders had not\u00a0planned\u00a0to push a federal abortion ban, telling reporters it was Graham\u2019s initiative.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr6_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cIn terms of scheduling, I think most of the members of my conference prefer that this be dealt with at the state level,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The GOP leader also downplayed the chances of any nationwide abortion ban passing the Senate, observing: \u201cI think it\u2019s safe to say there aren\u2019t 60 votes there at the federal level, no matter who happens to be in the majority, no matter who happens to be in the Senate.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Despite McConnell\u2019s efforts, strategists in both parties believe the issue of abortion rights became a major factor in last year\u2019s races. Democrats emphasized it in campaign ads played in races across the country. \u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr7_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>After Republicans lost a Senate seat and failed to win as many House seats as they expected, Trump blamed party leaders for mishandling the issue. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was the \u2018abortion issue\u2019, poorly handled by many Republicans, especially those that firmly insisted on no exceptions, even in the case of rape, incest, or life of the mother, that lost large number of voters,\u201d he wrote in a post on Truth Social, his social media platform, in January. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Senate Republicans now appear poised to battle each other over abortion policy once again, despite suffering another political setback in Wisconsin earlier this month.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Graham, the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, told The Hill\u00a0on\u00a0Tuesday that he plans to reintroduce his 15-week abortion ban. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On the other side of the intraparty debate, moderate Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) have reintroduced bipartisan legislation with Sens. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) and Kyrsten Sinema (I-Ariz.) to codify the right to an abortion before 24 weeks established by Roe v. Wade. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe that there is a need for codification of Roe and that\u2019s why last Congress we worked to put together a bill that we saw that reflected exactly that,\u201d Murkowski said, adding \u201cwe would like to see it advance.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Copyright 2023 Nexstar Media Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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