Mike Pence challenges rivals to back 15-week abortion ban

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Former US Vice-President Mike Pence has challenged his rivals in the Republican presidential field to support a 15-week national abortion ban.

He told a conservative gathering every Republican candidate for president should support 15 weeks "as a minimum nationwide standard" on abortion.

Last year the Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to abortion in the US.

Anti-abortion groups want to make a federal ban a key 2024 election issue.

The leader of one such group, Marjorie Dannenfelser with Susan B Anthony Pro-Life America, has said she will oppose any presidential candidate who does not embrace a 15-week national ban.

She called Mr Pence "the definition of an unapologetic pro-life leader".

 

Mr Pence, who has long made his evangelical faith central to his political identity, is one of the few Republican candidates to have spoken unequivocally about his support for such a ban.

On Friday at the Faith & Freedom Coalition's annual conference in Washington DC, Mr Pence said: "Let me say from my heart - the cause of life is the calling of our time and we must not rest and must not relent until we restore the sanctity of life to the centre of American law in every state in this country."

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[sirineou]

Mike Pence is not doing very well and sounds to me like he is trying to create some press. 

If I was an opponent I would answer it by proposing a 15 week ban on Mike Pence. If he does not raise his polls to double digits in 15 weeks he drop out.

[Tug]

The freedom party……my rear end stop trying to legislate your morality on others it’s time for a democratic super majority to straighten out the laws on this issue,education,immigration and guns

[bamnutsak]

 Why 15 weeks?

 

DeSantis signed a six week ban in Florida.

 

I don't think 15 weeks will fly with conservatives. Lindsey Graham got pilloried when he suggested a nation-wide 15 week ban.

 

Republican religious fundamentalists say life begins at conception and abortion is murder, ergo any abortion is murder, so they should just demand a complete, Zero-week ban on abortion, in any/all (rape, incest, age, health of mother, etc) cases.

 

And what, pray tell, happened to the SCOTUS Dobbs decision saying that this is a States-rights issue?

 

 

[Chomper Higgot]

GOP policies on abortion weld in votes tgey slready have amongst rightwing religious extremists, but drives voted to Democrats amongst moderate swing voters.

 

So do please keep talking about restricting the rights of half the nation to hold dominion over their own bodies, you know it makes sense.

[Purdey]

How can these people pretend to be pro-life when many states still have the death penalty, kids being shot in their classrooms?