These corporations are backing the sponsors of a national abortion ban

[Nevilledog]

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In June, the Supreme Court overturned Roe and Graham reiterated his position. "All of us in the conservative world have believed that there’s nothing in the Constitution giving the federal government the right to regulate abortion," Graham said in a June 26 appearance on Fox News.

But on Tuesday, Graham introduced legislation that would ban almost all abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy. The name of the legislation, "Protecting Pain-Capable Unborn Children from Late-Term Abortions Act," is misinformation. While the legislation bans almost all abortions after 15 weeks, the "current medical consensus is that it is unlikely that fetal pain perception is possible before the 29th or 30th weeks of pregnancy." Further, 15 weeks is not "late" in the term of a pregnancy which typically lasts 40 weeks.

While Graham's bill creates exceptions for rape, incest, and the life of the mother, these exceptions come with many caveats. A woman cannot receive an abortion pursuant to the rape exception unless she receives "counseling" or "medical treatment for the rape" at least 48 hours prior to the abortion. Further, the counseling "may not be provided by a facility that performs abortions." A physician must include evidence of the counseling or medical treatment in the patient's file prior to performing an abortion. Doctors cannot consider "psychological or emotional conditions" when determining whether an abortion is necessary to protect the life of the mother.

Graham's bill provides no exception for a pregnant woman who, after 15 weeks, learns that a fetus is not viable due to a developmental abnormality. (Many abnormalities are uncovered during an ultrasound performed around the 20th week of pregnancy.) Under Graham's bill, the non-viable fetus must be carried to term.

Graham's bill does not "strike a balance" between Republicans who have imposed total abortion bans in a dozen states and supporters of abortion rights. Rather, it allows more restrictive state bans to remain in place while imposing national restrictions on states that have chosen to protect abortion rights.

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The article goes on to list corporate sponsors, but I thought this excerpt was a very good explanation/frame of the proposed national abortion ban.

[Deuxcents]

1. Who are the sponsors? Can't get past the pay wall

[Nevilledog]

2. I'm not getting a paywall.

Might be the splash screen you're seeing that you can click on the "read it first" ?

[Ferrets are Cool]

5. Thank you for the list

[Kaleva]

10. Which Senators are cosponsors of the bill?

[Hermit-The-Prog]

11. The usual fascist-loving assholes.

[panader0]

3. Ugh! hard to believe that so many big corporations are behind this.

I hope their employees raise hell.

[Deuxcents]

6. Thanks for the list..

I’m not happy w/ so many large corps sponsoring this 💩, either. I retired from one of em n I’ll do my best to boycott as many as I can

[durablend]

7. AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile be like "where you gonna go?" :P

[Faux pas]

8. ...

As long as they are allowed to keep "We The People" down, they'll keep doing it.

[moondust]

9. Did their contributions pre-date the ban?

Lindsey just announced his national ban recently and I'm not aware of any previous national ban proposal. Some corporations would probably approve but some maybe wouldn't. Others might place their profits above all else.