A US Senator Just Introduced An Abortion Ban & He's Not Married Or Has Kids
Twitter has a lot to say!
The senator from South Carolina, Lindsey Graham, introduced a nationwide abortion bill this Tuesday.
The denominated Protecting Pain-Capable Unborn Children from Late-Term Abortions Act would prohibit pregnant women to go through an abortion after 15 weeks of gestation.
According to the official bill, pain receptors in a fetus begin forming at seven weeks, and by 15 weeks, the unborn child can fully experience pain.
“Working closely with the preeminent pro-life groups in the country, we are today introducing legislation to ban abortion at a Fme when unborn children can feel pain,” said Graham in a press release. “Our legislation, which bans abortion after 15 weeks gestation, will put the United States abortion policy in line with other developed nations such as France, Germany, Belgium, Denmark, Spain, and other European nations.”
This new proposal led to divided opinions between republicans and democrats, and even among the Republican Party itself.
“Tonight, I’ll be sworn into Congress. But Lindsey Graham & GOP extremists JUST introduced a national abortion ban,” Democrat candidate Pat Ryan tweeted.
Representative Jamie Raskin also wrote that “Lindsey Graham’s nationwide 15-week abortion ban is a dangerous escalation of the GOP’s plan to destroy women’s health care.”
On the other hand, Republican businessman Alex Bruesewitz didn’t seem to be agreeing with Graham’s recent proposal.
“If we don’t retake the Senate in November, it will be because of RINOs like Mitch McConnell & Lindsey Graham,” he tweeted.
A recent article published by NBC News states that Republican leaders and strategists are not supporting Graham’s bill — which was introduced weeks before the midterm elections.
The fact that the Republican senator has never been married and has never had kids became a Twitter topic for users that were giving their opinions on this bill.
“Just a reminder that the person crafting national legislation stripping you of your reproductive rights, Lindsey Graham, has no children, no significant other, no family, but is perfectly content to tell you how and when you should have yours,” actor Brian Tyler Cohen tweeted.
“Let me stop you there, Lindsey. You are a 67 year old MAN who has never fathered any children. You do not get to ‘pick’ when women in America should lose bodily autonomy,” activist Andrew Wortman shared.
In a nutshell, Graham’s legislation would prohibit doctors from performing abortions after 15 weeks of gestation except in situations involving rape, incest, or risks to the mother. This bill would also leave in place state laws that, according to an official press release, are more protective of unborn life.