inaccurate. stanford, these are all inaccurate studies. they re not inaccurate. they re written by people that don t have a bone to pick here. they re simply saying the science does not exist. susan, if i can just interject. i did note there were qualifiers and even senator lindsey graham s articulation of how he viewed the pain issue. i don t know what you re talking about, but i can tell you he said may. he said it may. absolutely. the study said there was no credible evidence until 29 weeks. your viewers know baylies in neonatal units around the country who are alive before that period. they ve seen these babies grimace and cry when stuck by stimuli. so saying these can t feel pain until 29 weeks, that s not true. i think the issue here hang on.
susan musket is for the national right to life committee. susan, isn t this all theater? by that i mean isn t this bill on its face unconstitutional? no, it s not. when the other side talks about the latest decision, they talk about the roe decision. but they don t want to talk about the 2007 supreme court decision which upheld the nationwide ban on partial birth abortions. and this bill is consistent with that 2007 decision. so we feel confident that the court will uphold the bill. and the other side is raises the same arguments against this bill as they did against the partial birth abortion ban. they just don t want to talk about the 2007 supreme court decision. isn t the impart of roe that this is a question in the eyes of the law of viability and not of pain? no, the court has said in the 2007 decision that states have a constitutional role to play in defining the interests in terms
it would seem the public sentiment is on susan s side. in a recent quinnipiac university poll, 55% said they agree with a 20-week limit preferred to the 30% that prefer to keep it at 24 weeks. there are two issues here. questions about these particular limits, i think the right has been successful in arguing sets of facts that don t exist. we re not talking about an evidence-based conversation. and i think as more people see the evidence, that will change. but i do think that we have a lot of experience of running races on the issue of abortion. and i appreciate that senator graham has a very tough election, very tough primary election. and he has to go far right on an issue like this. i think people will say if you look at the races recently, the senate races we ve had recently and the governors race in virginia, when you re talking about abortion, you re alienating women voters. on that issue, here s senator graham last week on fox news