'He just turns away from her and starts yelling about Democrats to drown her out,' said one critic of Lindsey Graham's response to a woman's question about his abortion ban proposal. 'Sort of a metaphor for the Republican Party.'
—a woman asked what he would say to someone"who found out that their son had an anomaly that would make him incompatible with life at 16 weeks" of pregnancy.
"I had regular appointments, I did everything right," said the woman."And at 16 weeks we found out that our son would likely not live. When he was born, he lived for eight days. He bled from every orifice of his body, but we were allowed to make that choice for him. You would be robbing that choice from those women. What do you say to someone like me?"
Looking away from the woman, Graham replied that there"will be exceptions for life of the mother and rape and incest," and talked over her when she pointed out that his proposal does not include exceptions in the case of a fetus which has serious or life-threatening health issues. "The developed world has said that at this stage in the pregnancy, the child feels pain and we're saying we're gonna join the rest of the world and not be like Iran," Graham said.a metaphor for the Republican Party."
The senator did not point to any research stating that a fetus can feel pain at 15 weeks of pregnancy. In recent years, Republican lawmakers who have pushed"fetal pain" abortion bans have
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