In 2003, Arkansas senator Mark Pryor, a Democrat, voted for a federal ban on partial-birth abortion, a particular procedure that the late New York Democratic senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan described as “too close to infanticide.” But now as Congress considers a bill to ban late-term abortion procedures that are indistinguishable from infanticide, Pryor says he’s reluctant to vote for the measure because he’s worried the Supreme Court would find it unconstitutional.
Politico‘s Elizabeth Titus and Jose DelReal report:
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