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.