Rep. Nancy Mace, RS.C., condemned the Republican abortion policy and said on Sunday that Republicans “will lose a lot” if they continue to accept an increasingly restrictive stance on the procedure.
“As a Republican, the majority of people aren’t extreme, so I need to read the room on this issue,” Mace said on ABC’s “This Week.” “If we continue on this path of extremes, we will suffer enormous losses.”
Mace, a moderate Republican and sexual assault survivor, has been critical of the Republican Party’s abortion policy since the Roe v. Wade debacle last year.
On Sunday, she took aim at a number of state-level moves to restrict access to abortion, pointing to a six-week abortion ban signed in Florida “at midnight” last week.
She also denounced a bill in her native state of South Carolina that would impose the death penalty on women who have abortions, saying the bill “gives rapists more rights than women who have been raped.”
“That’s the wrong message for 2024,” Mace said. “And once you find that middle ground, the majority of people want some kind of pregnancy limit somewhere in between, not nine months. They want exceptions for rape and incest.” They want to make contraception accessible to women.”
Mace also said the federally approved abortion drug mifepristone, which has been approved by the federal government for more than 20 years, is being appealed in federal court, prompting the Supreme Court’s decision to allow access to the widely used abortion drug mifepristone. praised the
“It was the right decision by the Supreme Court on Friday night,” Mace said.
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