Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley said the country needs a consensus on abortion and said she would not support a complete ban.
In an interview, the now 2024 presidential candidate pointed to U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham’s proposal of a national 15-week ban, which includes exceptions for rape, incest, and the health and life of the mother.
“We need consensus on this,” Haley said about abortion in an interview on NBC’s “Today” show.
When asked if she would support a full out ban, Haley said, “not a full out federal ban, because I don’t think that’s been put on the table. What Lindsey Graham has put on the table is 15 weeks. If we’re looking at 15 weeks, what we need to understand is we are not OK with abortion up until the time of birth and so we should at least decide when is it OK.”
As governor, Haley signed a 20-week abortion ban, which included an exception for the life and health of the mother and if the baby could not survive outside the womb, but no exceptions for rape or incest.
After the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision, allowing states to decide whether abortion is legal, South Carolina’s six-week ban, signed by Gov. Henry McMaster, was struck down by the state Supreme Court in a 3-2 decision. The state Supreme Court ruled the law violated the state constitution’s right to privacy. It leaves South Carolina’s 20-week law in effect.
That has not stopped the state Legislature from trying to institute further restrictions on abortion. After the House and Senate could not compromise last year, lawmakers in both chambers are trying again to further ban abortions.
The Senate last week adopted a six-week ban with exceptions in cases of rape, incest, medical emergency or fatal fetal anomaly. The House this week approved a ban from conception, with exceptions for rape, incest, fatal fetal anomaly and protections for the life and health of the mother.
The differences put the two chambers in the same spot they were last fall.
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Do I agree? Yes I do because I would like to think we (conservatives) will have a decent shot of winning the next national election before the country falls into the irretrievable leftist hell hole of a permanent socialist culture. Roughly 50% of the vote is female. Everyone seems to be worried if Trump can win the next election. This issue is bigger than the Trump question. The left will be pounding it relentlessly for the next 20 months.
They’ve been pounding the abortion bull, for decades already..
“Consensus is the absence of leadership” – Margaret Thatcher,,,,a true Conservative leader who always did the right thing over the most popular expedient flavor of the day. Haley take note before running your mouth as you attempt to run for the Presidency. There is no such thing as being just a little bit pregnant, nor a little bit innocent in the taking a human life. What God has knitted together, let no anxious frightened woman put assunder.
#1. I.A.W. the U.S. Constitution, Amendment 10. – The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley said the country needs a consensus on abortion. That is not gonna happen.
My feelings about abortion:
Exactly what human right gives a woman the right to murder her unborn baby?
What about the Baby’s human rights?
A woman’s body ends at the end of the baby’s umbilical cord and that is where the baby’s body begins.
It is Not the woman’s body that they are killing; it is the baby’s body!!
The only “consensus” we need is that abortion is a sin from the pits of hell. You will never get me to compromise on the idea that the murder of an innocent, unborn child is anything other than an abomination. A woman’s “right to choose” ends when the child’s “right to life” begins. A woman “chooses” when she spreads her legs. The only possible exceptions are danger to the mother’s life, and rape. Incest (non-rape) is also a choice a woman makes and needs to live with. There are plenty of adoption agencies begging for babies. You don’t have to murder your child to get rid of it.