[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 36 (Monday, February 28, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Page S818]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                ABORTION

  Mr. McCONNELL. Madam President, now, on an entirely different matter, 
with a cascade of major crises testing our country, Senate Democrats 
are prioritizing a show vote on mandating 9 months of abortion on 
demand across America.
  Senate Democrats want to go on record supporting the radical and 
massively unpopular proposition that we should have functionally no 
restrictions on abortion whatsoever. Democrats already have the United 
States, one of just seven nations in the entire world that allows 
elective abortions after 20 weeks. This radical fringe policy places us 
in company like China and North Korea.
  But now, Senate Democrats want to go even further than Chairman Xi 
and Kim Jong-Un. Ninety-one percent of Americans support some 
restrictions on abortion during the third trimester. The public 
overwhelmingly disagrees with Democrats' extreme obsession on this 
issue.
  But yet again, our colleagues wish to demonstrate that the radical 
left fringe runs today's Democratic Party.
  As the world prays for Ukraine and debates consequences for Putin, as 
American families contend with violent crime, open borders, and runaway 
inflation, Washington Democrats want to spend their time arguing for 
unlimited abortion on demand.
  So I want to thank the majority leader for making it so clear where 
his party's priorities lie.

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