Republicans asked about abortion ban: Run away!
By Jennifer Rubin
Opinion writer
May 17 at 11:30 AM
Pro-life Republicans who, for decades, have been outdoing one another to appear the most ideologically pristine are oddly mum. Given a chance to comment on the Alabama abortion ban, the culmination of decades of work by the antiabortion movement, they run away. And I am not speaking metaphorically:
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That’s simply pathetic. These Republicans have been shouting from the rooftops their fidelity to the absolutist position on abortion — or insisting rape and incest would always be exceptions — and now they cannot muster an opinion? They now face the logical conclusion of their crusade: They must either tell the extreme antiabortion advocates to buzz off, or they will align themselves with a position that about 60 percent of Americans disfavor — making abortion illegal in almost all cases. Well, what do they believe?
It’s simply not good enough for McSally to say it is a state issue. She owes it to voters in Arizona to say what she wants for her state; what she is willing to do to prevent the epidemic of abortion bans from hitting her state; how she is going to evaluate judges; and whether she really wants to let states decide to subject rape and incest victims to these laws. If she cannot make those calls, she doesn’t belong in the Senate.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/05/17/republicans-asked-about-abortion-ban-run-away/?utm_term=.2dce8f08a079
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