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Kelly McClure

Pence pushes for national abortion ban

Former U.S. Vice President Mike Pence Drew Angerer/Getty Images

In a statement to Breitbart News following Friday's Supreme Court reversal of Roe v. Wade, former Vice President Mike Pence made statements to the effect that he'd like to see the banning of abortions nationwide. 

"Life won," Pence said in response to the Supreme Court's 6-3 vote in the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, which upheld a Mississippi law banning abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy. Five of the six conservative justices concluded that decision required overturning Roe, although Chief Justice John Roberts wrote a concurring opinion in which he disagreed.

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