The South Carolinian can’t afford to get outflanked on the right in Iowa in eagerness to ban as many abortions as possible.
on abortion policy, a red-hot issue among the likely caucus-goers of Iowa. He took the hardest line available, albeit one that shifts responsibility for making national abortion law to the Congress he would leave if elected president:
To be clear, that means preempting any state laws more generous to pregnant women than forced birth after 15 weeks of pregnancy , and Scott makes no bones about the fact that this step is just for starters. The occasion for this line-drawing, of course, is the first anniversary of the Supreme Court’sdecision ending 49 years of a federal constitutional right to choose pre-viability abortions.
But hey: Scott’s famous empathy for people who disagree with him is on display alongside his excitement over the “historic victory:”
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