White House: Serious risk of nationwide abortion ban after McConnell floats the idea
NPR
The White House is saying the country is at "serious risk" of a nationwide ban on abortion two days after Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said it was possible for lawmakers to pursue codifying the Supreme Court's leaked draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade.
In an interview with USA Today published over the weekend, McConnell said if the draft represented the final ruling, "legislative bodies ... certainly could legislate in that area." As of now, the leaked opinion from the court would allow states to implement their own abortion bans, but it would not ban abortion on the national level.
"If this were the final decision, that was the point that it should be resolved one way or another in the legislative process. So yeah, it's possible," he said.