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Mitch McConnell refuses to say whether he supports a US national abortion ban
Senate minority leader says he is ‘not advocating anything at this level’ and that issue is too divisive among lawmakers for consensus
Asked whether he supports a federal abortion ban, US Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell said Sunday that he is “not advocating anything at this level”.
The Republican, during remarks in a new interview published by NBC’s Meet the Press, stopped short of saying whether or not he supported a 15-week federal ban on abortion with exceptions, but he instead portrayed the issue as “a practical matter” that was too divisive among federal lawmakers to result in a consensus among them.
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