GOP Hopes It Has Cracked the Abortion Code - Burgess Everett and Lauren French - POLITICO
National Organization for Women President Terry O’Neill dismissed that argument, calling the rhetoric surrounding the legislation misleading and saying it amounts to overturning “Roe v. Wade completely, period.”
“If you say ‘viability,’ that’s the time where a fetus can live independently outside of the womb. That’s 24 to 26 weeks. But most people don’t know that,” O’Neill said. “So when you just say, ‘Oh, do you want to ban abortion at 20 weeks?’ People go ‘Yeah, that’s really late!’ No, it’s not. And most people don’t know that it’s not late.”
Putting abortion legislation on the floor also has the potential to spark internal GOP arguments that Congress is not going far enough for some conservatives. Franks said he would like to push things further but that incremental progress makes far more sense for Republicans now in the driver’s seat on Capitol Hill.
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