After Trump said he could support a 15-week national abortion ban, a caucus that includes most House Republicans has endorsed the idea.
abortion banon Wednesday, titled “Fiscal Sanity to Save America.” Despite being billed as a budget plan, it is a highly ideological document.
“The gift of life is precious and should be protected,” the document states, adding that the “RSC celebrates thedecision.” In that case, the Supreme Court overturned federal protections for abortion rights, using the 6-3 conservative supermajority that Trump helped create. The RSC document goes further: It endorses a 15-week national abortion ban, as well as legislation that could eliminate access to in vitro fertilization, or IVF. In an email to reporters Wednesday night, the Biden White House tied the document to Trump, saying that the “Trump Republican budget would ban abortion nationwide rip away IVF access.”
The RSC budget “applauds” a series of “measures designed to advance the cause of life,” including the “Protecting Pain-Capable Unborn Children from Late-Term Abortions Act, which would prohibit abortions after 15 weeks.”he could back a 15-week national abortion ban. “The number of weeks, now, people are agreeing on 15, and I’m thinking in terms of that, and it’ll come out to something that’s very reasonable,” he said.
The budget plan from the RSC also applauds the “Life at Conception Act, which would provide 14th amendment protections at all stages of life.” As CNN, the bill “does not include a carveout for IVF,” and “reproductive rights activists worry the legislation — if ever passed — would have a chilling effect on IVF clinics.”finding that embryos created using IVF are people in the eyes of the law and covered under the state’s wrongful death statute.
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