By John
McCormack
Sunday,
May 14, 2023
On
CBS’s Face the
Nation on
Sunday, Nikki Haley made the following remarks about a potential federal
abortion law:
For a national standard, I think we have to tell the American people the
truth. In order to do a national standard, you’d have to have a majority of the
House, 60 Senate votes, and a president. We haven’t had 60 pro-life senators in
100 years. So the idea that a Republican president could ban all abortions is
not being honest with the American people, any more than a Democrat president
could ban these pro-life laws in the states.
[…]
I’m not gonna lie to the American people. Nothing’s gonna happen if we
don’t get 60 votes in the Senate. We’re not even close to that on the
Republican or the Democrat side.
I think
Haley is right that there’s no real chance Senate Republicans would
abolish the filibuster, but 49 of the 51 Democrats in the Senate have endorsed scrapping the 60-vote threshold for
legislation. That means that if they replace Senator Kyrsten Sinema in
Arizona with progressive Democrat Ruben Gallego (and don’t lose any Senate
races besides West Virginia), 50 Senate Democrats would abolish the filibuster
and pass a radical abortion law—mandating legal abortion in all 50 states
from viability to birth for reasons of mental or
emotional health—if
Democrats win the House and hold the White House.
Haley
clearly wants to minimize the issue of a federal abortion limit for
Republicans, but in doing so she is wrongly downplaying the obvious
consequences of a Democratic trifecta for abortion and a wide array of
issues.
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