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Maya Yang

Mitch McConnell refuses to say whether he supports a US national abortion ban

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Mitch McConnell speaks to reporters in Washington DC, on 23 April 2024. Photograph: Nathan Posner/Rex/Shutterstock

Asked whether he supports a federal abortion ban, the US Senate minority leader, Mitch McConnell, said on Sunday that he is “not advocating anything at this level”.

The Republican, during remarks in a new interview published by NBC’s Meet the Press, stopped short of saying whether or not he supported a 15-week federal ban on abortion with exceptions, but he instead portrayed the issue as “a practical matter” that was too divisive among federal lawmakers to result in a consensus among them.

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