Mr Braun Republican senator said that he personally was opposed to abortion and would like to see the medical practice wiped out entirely, while couching his statements with the claim that state governments should be the ultimate arbiters of such decisions.
According
to report, Republican senator has said he would be “perfectly comfortable” with
states implementing laws making it a crime for a woman to obtain abortion
services.
The
comment was made by Sen Mike Braun of Indiana, who joined NBC’s Meet the Press
to discuss the issue with host Chuck Todd. Abortion has re-entered the national
conversation as the Supreme Court considers a case from Mississippi that
directly challenges Roe vs Wade, the landmark abortion rights case.
On banning
abortion care, he said: “You’re gonna leave that up to the states and you might
find that right mix. I’m not saying we got in right in Indiana ... maybe you
find that happy medium,” he said.
“My idea
is, with what has happened with technology ... it needs to be different from
what it is,” the senator added, while not specifying what he meant by a perfect
solution.
"I'm
perfectly comfortable with doing it. Just not at the level where everybody's
gotta live with the same thing," Mr Braun continued. "When you talk
about criminalizing it, then all you're doing is taking this to a logical
extreme that you'll never get to anyway. We just need to take it off of where
it is. Send it back to the states. Let's find that right way to address it. And
this applies to many other issues as well."
Republicans
have long argued that individual states should be able to set more restrictive
policies regarding abortions and opposed efforts by Democrats to codify the
right to an abortion via federal legislation. The states of Texas and
Mississippi recently provoked controversy on the issue with laws that directly
conflict with the precedent set in Roe vs Wade, which established abortion as a
protected medical right, and the Court’s conservative majority strengthened under
former President Donald Trump could throw out all or parts of the Roe ruling as
a result.
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