Lindsey Graham in Alito Confirmation Hearings

On Abortion: Ginsburg would get rejected today for outspokenness on Roe

"The conflict is not simply one between a fetus' interest and a woman's interest.... As long as the government paid for childbirth, the argument proceeded, public funding could not be denied for abortion. By paying for childbirth but not abortion, the government increased spending and intruded upon or steered a choice Roe had ranked as a woman's fundamental right."

GRAHAM: That writing suggests from her point of view as the author of that article that not only is Roe an important constitutional right, that government ought to pay for abortions in certain circumstances. If she were here today and a Democratic president had nominated her and we take on the role that our colleagues are playing against you, not only would she not have gotten 96 votes, I think she would have been in for a very rough experience.