Four months ago, Senator Lindsey Graham celebrated the Supreme Court's decision to strike down Roe v. Wade, upending federal protections that allowed pregnant people to seek abortions and sending the decision back down to the states, where restrictive bans on access were being passed. “I think states should decide the issue of marriage and states should decide the issue of abortion,” he told CNN just last month.
So, it’s a little weird that Graham is the author of a new bill that would place federal restrictions on access to abortion. The so-called “Protecting Pain-Capable Unborn Children from Late-Term Abortions Act” (super catchy, Lindsey) would establish a ban on abortion access 15 weeks after conception.
