Tim Scott isn’t officially running for president yet, but he has an official exploratory commission which means he’s getting ready to announce.
Today he did an interview with WMUR TV and discussed the issue of abortion in the aftermath of the Hobbs decision, especially late-term abortions:
In a 1-on-1 interview with @WMUR9, Sen. Tim Scott @votetimscott says the Dobbs decision left abortion policy to the states, but if he's President he says he would sign a 20-week federal abortion ban into law. #FITN #NHPolitics #WMUR pic.twitter.com/fHPGZ4gr5z
— Adam Sexton (@AdamSextonWMUR) April 13, 2023
Scott doesn’t offer the 20-week abortion ban as if that’s as low as he’ll go in terms of banning abortions. Rather, he’s responding to a question from the interviewer as to whether he’d sign a 20-week abortion ban if one came to his desk. And he says ‘definitely’.
The context of all of this is the horrible late-term abortions that Democrats love. Scott says he’d sign the federal ban on it because we simply cannot go there.
At the very beginning of the clip Scott does say “I think states will have to solve that problem on their own. The big problem that we see today is that our Democrats want to make this a federal issue of having abortions into the third trimester.”
Now I may be wrong because I’m not hearing the question that led to that answer, but it sounds like Scott is saying that states would have to work out the pre-20 week abortion issues on their own. Meaning that he’d only be willing to sign a federal ban on late-term abortions. That sounds to me like a somewhat political answer to keep the left from ripping him to shreds on abortion. But we’ll see at some point if it’s any different that what the other candidates will say on the issue of federal abortion bans.