Chuck Schumer calls the mifepristone ban "inconceivably cruel and radical"
Senate Minority Leader and United States Senator for New York, in a statement to MS NOW
“inconceivably cruel and radical”
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Source for Bill Cassidy's response as chairman of the committee holding the bill, John Cornyn's "All in" post on X, Chuck Schumer's reaction, and Alexis McGill Johnson's statement. Also records that spokespeople for Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski did not respond to questions about the bill, and that the two were the only Republican senators who declined to sign a letter to the Department of Health and Human Services calling for a mifepristone crackdown.
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The bill had been introduced two days earlier and would need Democratic votes to advance in the Senate, which Axios reported it would not get.
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MS NOW reported the same week that anti-abortion groups were pressing Republican leadership to take the bill up regardless of its prospects.
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Case context: Should Congress ban the abortion pill, mifepristone, as Josh Hawley has proposed?
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The case's fixed reference point is Hawley's proposition that Congress should ban mifepristone by revoking its federal approval. Schumer's words are directed at that bill and reject it in the strongest terms. The closest competing label is minimizes, in the sense that dismissing a proposal as radical can work to place it outside serious debate rather than to argue against it. That loses because the characterisation is plainly condemnatory rather than a downplaying of anyone's concern, and it is addressed squarely at the legislation under scrutiny.
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