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The Guardian - US
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Richard Luscombe

Republican Graham loses cool over abortion after supreme court pill ruling

Republican Senator from South Carolina Lindsey Graham accused CNN interviewer of covering for opponents he said wanted to see ‘barbaric’ late-term abortions.
Republican Senator from South Carolina Lindsey Graham accused CNN interviewer of covering for opponents he said wanted to see ‘barbaric’ late-term abortions. Photograph: Will Oliver/EPA

Republican frustration with the supreme court decision which on Friday blocked restrictions on a widely used abortion pill spilled into public on Sunday, as the South Carolina senator Lindsey Graham lost his cool in a television interview when challenged on his flip-flopping position.

Graham, who last September proposed a national 15-week abortion ban only a month after insisting it was an issue for states to decide, became angry on CNN’s State of the Union, deflecting questions with false claims Democrats wanted a law allowing abortions until birth on demand.

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