We’ve got show LAWS coming at you.
After Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) suggested that a federal abortion ban was possible, a reporter asked Scalise if he supported stripping women’s rights nationwide.
“I hope that the ruling comes out soon and I hope it’s the ruling that was leaked,” Scalise replied. “But if you think about where we are, we’re a party who defends life and we would celebrate a ruling that allows elected leaders to defend life and debate in open public what those laws should be in every state and in Washington.”
“Clearly, we will move day one if we get the majority on the Born-Alive Act so states like New York can’t murder a baby born outside the womb and call it abortion,” he added.
Gee, that sounds terrible which must be why it’s outlawed in every state already.
But they seem to think passing laws against crimes that are already illegal and which nobody is doing are a real political winner.
Former President George W. Bush must have thought so since he signed a similarly redundant “born-alive” bill in 2003.
Democrats could do this. And they wouldn’t be proposing to outlaw practices that are already illegal if they make these Republicans vote on rape and incest exemptions, banning birth control, preventing women from crossing state lines to obtain abortion etc. These are all live issues on the GOP agenda. They should be forced to take a stand.
Meanwhile, the cowardly Republicans will play their voters for suckers and pretend they’re doing something even though they aren’t. They’re leaving the real dirty work “up to the states.”